In this paper through describing the process of psychotherapy with two children I would like to illustrate the journey these young patients undertook from an intellectual „understanding” of their disease to being able to establish a „relationship” with their illness. In therapy this relationship was built up through bringing to life various small fragments of their understanding of their disease and through acceptance of regressive ways of expressions until it became possible to help these children establish progressively more mature ways of expressions in order to support their sublimation processes. Unreflected emotions and defencelessness presented in therapy as internal and external hurt. Through jointly „creating” the illness in therapy (drawing, playing, verbal expression and transference relationship) these emotions could become dominant as could too to some extent uncontrollable physical processes. At the same time it became possible to deepen the level of therapeutic work and to work through those intrapsychic conflicts that served as background to psychogenic symptoms.