ABSTRACT
The issue of emotional sense is central to therapy. An emotion that has not been worked through is useless to therapy. If the meaning of emotions emerges through the therapeutic process, this means that therapy builds meaning through a dialogue that is also—perhaps mostly—an emotional dialogue. Emotional brain systems have probably evolved through their very ability to let us decide in an instantaneous as well as sensible way. This is what has been defined as emotional intelligence. Any emotion is an important clue about what is happening within a human interaction; this does not imply, though, that such emotion "unveils" some deep reality of that interaction. Hypothesising with emotions does not only mean exerting a mistrust toward immediate intuition. With Tiziana, it was mostly a matter of connecting her overall attitude— and a momentary crack in it—to the story she was telling, helping a tacit emotion come to the fore.
