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Bodies can be a place where co-construction of relational meanings between patient and analyst occurs. Sometimes patients may need to use our bodies (both patient’s and analyst’s) as liminal space—a space between inside and outside, between self and other, between language and silence. Processing this mutual experience allows the patient to experience body-states relationally and to access dissociated meanings, but it also means that the analyst is inevitably pulled into the relational dynamics implicated in the patient’s symptoms. A clinical vignette is presented from the perspective of the body in liminal space. In this example it is from inside out, rather than outside in.