What silence has to offer the clinical encounter

Abstract

Received: January 20, 2020; Accepted: February 05, 2020; Published: February 10, 2020 Kawabata, a Japanese writer, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1968. Four years later, at age 72, words from his short story “Silence” were quoted in his obituary: “A silent death is an endless word” [1]. That story and my travels to Japan inspired this commentary. Remarkably, the story, while written more than a decade before Kawabata’s protégé took his life in the traditional and dramatic samurai manner, foreshadowed the Nobel laurate’s death. To the chagrin of his readers and fellow citizens, the former suicide apparently triggered Kawabata’s.