Communication between patient and analyst is a two-way transaction. The communication may be verbal or nonverbal, conscious or unconscious. Our earliest mode of communication is through behaviors and sounds. In adult life this mode persists, so that our spoken communications may often be accompanied by unspoken messages. In the analytic situation, unspoken messages are an integral part of the communications from patient to analyst and analyst to patient. Examples are presented of spoken and unspoken communications, and their role in the psychoanalytic process is explained.