I explore the danger evoked by the in-person setting and argue that this threat invests the frame with a dark side. This danger is felt by some adults who suffered early caregiver absence or neglect, denying them holding and containment, and breeding forms of protection that hindered development. The danger was exposed by some patients’ resistance to, or difficulties with, in-person work following the pandemic. Jose Bleger’s theory elucidates the frame’s maintenance of a primitive symbiotic relation, and eruption of keen anxiety due to changes in the frame. Case excerpts illustrate two forms of early anxiety provoked by shifts to in-person sessions: anxiety related to otherness, and terror realized in the breakdown of continuity of being. Despite such challenges, I argue that the in-person setting enables the patient to live childhood trauma anew with the analyst, to attain possible healing and growth. Finally, I question whether trauma in some analysts’ lives led to collusion with patients in shared resistance to the in-person frame.