Only in recent years has there been an upsurge of interest in problems of language and communication among psychoanalysts. Dr. Meerloo was one of the pioneers in this area. He believes that the psychoanalytic process can be viewed as 'a laboratory for the study of microlinguistics'. This monograph is a digest of his experiences with, and some of his conclusions about, the role of nonverbal signals in the therapeutic process.

Most analysts would readily agree that the communication process in free association consists of much more than the verbal exchange between patient and analyst. Most would assert that patients respond to more than the therapist's verbal message and that the