ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a form of relational psychoanalysis, which is particularly influenced by attachment theory and related contemporary developments. In the author's conception of the therapeutic process, the role of interpretation includes the exploration and understanding of the links between current feeling states, somatic experiences and attachment history. The discussion and analysis offered here is an attempt to address the question "How does therapy work?" The author has mentioned some key areas to consider, but the author wish to emphasize that this is just a partial exploration. The chapter explains that the therapist has to tune in to the procedural mode of being, that is where the somatic and affective life is based, and be with—to witness, understand, share, and process. "Corrective" therapy is a very unfortunate term, and one that does not capture the unconscious and procedural mode of reliving with a difference.
