Silence and Silencing in Psychoanalysis

Michael B. Buchholz is professor of social psychology at International Psychoanalytic University (IPU), Berlin, Germany. He is a psychologist and social scientist and a fully trained psychoanalyst. He is head of the Doctorate Program at IPU and chair of the social psychological department. He haspublished more than 20 books and more than 350 scientific papers on topics like analysis of therapeutic metaphors and therapeutic conversation, including thesupervisory process and he has contributed to psychoanalytic treatment technique, theory, and history. Michael has conducted conversation analytic studies on group therapy with sexual offenders, about therapeutic contact scenarios and on therapeutic empathy. Hiscurrentinterest isthe study of therapeutic talk-in-interaction using Conversation Analysis. Together with Anssi Peräkylä (Helsinki) he is editing a Frontiers in psychology Research Topic Talking and Cure - What's really going on in psychotherapy.Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, PhD, is clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. He works as a lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University and in private practice in Berlin. He has given lectures, seminars, university courses, and conference presentations throughout Europe and in the United States of America. He is author of many conceptual and empirical papers about attachment theory and research, psychoanalytic education, and psychoanalysis and the arts, some of which were translated into German, Hungarian, Italian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Turkish. He has also edited or co-edited ten other books or special journal issues, most recent of which is Ferenczi's influence on contemporary psychoanalytic traditions (with Gabriele Cassullo and Jay Frankel, 2018).