Introduction: Silent Reverberations: Potentialities of Attuned Listening.

Silent reverberations can also occur as enduring, puzzling presences of discomfort, anxiety, and worry, as well as expressing themselves as acts of care (Dragojlovic, Shohet, Samuels, Cassaniti, [11]; Shohet, [32]). This collection of essays invites thinking about silences as forces of affective reverberation that resonate through, within, and across social, political, and intersubjective relations of turbulent pasts and uncertain futures, as well as forms of care and layers of structural oppression. SILENT REVERBERATIONS AS AFFECTIVE FORCES As silent reverberations move through verbal and nonverbal communication in embodied intersubjective spaces, it is helpful to think of them as I affective forces i . [Extracted from the article]