Silence, depression, and bodily doubt: toward a phenomenology of silence in psychopathology.

This philosophical paper argues that silence in depression is not merely an absence of speech but a profound alteration of lived experience. Drawing on phenomenology, the author contends that depressive silence reflects a fundamental disruption of bodily certainty and self-presence, where the body becomes an object of doubt rather than a medium of engagement with the world. The analysis proposes that understanding silence as an expression of bodily doubt can deepen clinical approaches to depression by attending to the embodied and existential dimensions of the condition.

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Silence, depression, and bodily doubt: toward a phenomenology of silence in psychopathology.