Silence: The Psychology and the Craft for Emotional Wellbeing

In Silence: The Psychology and the Craft for Emotional Wellbeing, the author-a psychotherapist, university professor, educator, and researcher-takes the reader into a thought-provoking and heartfelt journey.She offers original perspectives and vulnerable stories from her clients, students, and personal life.Drawing on, among others, ethnographic and autoethnographic accounts, Lehmann serves the reader with psychological insights, offering a timely, critical, and thorough viewpoint to contrast with an overload of misinformation about what silence is and how people should feel when quiet.The reader will be challenged to aspire to balance when communicating or connecting with themselves, with others, with nature, or with art, or, for some, as part of a spiritual path.Whether in nature, at work meetings, on the road, in a classroom, in the therapy room, or at the dinner table, silences appear as coordinates, and this book is the missing map for surviving and thriving when navigating toward