On the basis of some clinical examples, we try in this article to show how confrontation should be subordinated to the principle of the patient’s emotional sustainability. Confrontation can also be carried out in an indirect way, by using the characters of the analytic dialogue, and certainly by responding to the signals coming from the emotional LEDs that light up continuously in the field. In fact, we argue that especially the restricted classical concept of confrontation seems to put too much emphasis on rational understanding. On the contrary, from a field perspective, what one is interested in is not a discussion of presumed truths, but an expansion of the degree of emotional unison and so the patient’s ability to give a personal meaning to experience.