Transformation of Mental Pain and Breathing Vicissitudes During a Fragment of an Analytical Relationship

Thanks to the development of theory and technique, and to the nature of the problems to be solved by means of psychoanalysis (Gaddini 1984), greater attention is now focused on forms of communication and experiences that normally do not have access to the conscious, which has always more or less been considered as an implicit substrate of any relationship, but that are rarely considered worthy of study, probably due to the difficulty of putting these forms into words without distorting their peculiarity.

I am referring in particular to those situations in which we find ourselves attracted back within our bodies in direct contact with its biological rhythms and its physiology.

An example of the kind of circumstance which ‘forces’ us to come into contact with this kind of experience is when a patient refuses to talk during analysis, or sleeps the whole way through the session or even does not attend the sessions for a long period of time.

Another example is the somatization of a psychological state and vice-versa. Often the pain, the anxiety, the suffering move to different ‘sites’