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Psychoanalysis has a long and distinguished history in the use of non-interpretative measures, first introduced by Freud in the case of the Rat Man and, then, formalized in the case of the Wolf Man. Freud passed the mantle to Ferenczi when he declared the future development in psychoanalysis would center around Ferenczi's introduction of the role of activity in psychoanalytic technique. Over the course of his clinical career Ferenczi described a theory of trauma, the Confusion of Tongues paradigm and experimented with Relaxation Therapy which included a wide array of non-interpretative measures in order to successfully treat trauma. Three clinical cases are presented by the authors to illustrate the use of on-interpretative measures in the contemporary analysis of trauma. Trauma creates a developmental freeze which interferes with the individual's capacity to mentalize, i.e. create representations which can be stored in language and thus, symbolize concepts for meaning formation. Arrested development of cognition and verbal interaction is stored in the body as a somatic memory. Non-interpretative measures are an effort to reach the split-off pre-cognitive and somatic aspects of the trauma.