Mind and body are not objects having a really distinct existence; they are conceived according to the observational vertex used. This in turn has also influence the choice of tools employed for research and treatment.

The Author investigates the role of the body of the analyst in the session along with its bodily counter-transference. He explores in particular how the latter can be used in order to acknowledge, understand and transform those situations in which we are dealing with the overwhelming presence or total absence of body issues.

In order to treat the body in psychoanalysis it is necessary to give “body” to sensorial pathways of the analyst-patient relationship no less than those of verbal nature.

Once the analyst acknowledges his own body, this becomes not only a powerful tool for analyzing somato/psychic experiences of the analytic couple, but also the means by which the patient will be able to find and get to know her own body self.

By strictly confronting theory and clinical practice, the Author examines the clinical history of F and T and shows us how heavy counter-transference work has been called for in order to keep up with multiple communication pathways of the analytic relationship.