ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author hopes that training and therapy would help him overcome the pain of having a body, of being a body. Bodies speak of pain and joy. Clients step into the clinic and sit their hurting bodies on the chair or couch or mattress. Their hurt reverberates in the authors' psyche, which might be worked through in supervision. But their pains also awaken the authors' bodily pain, concrete pain. Concrete fears are embodied in the clinic, cold sweat and tearful eyes, dry skin and breathlessness, contracted muscles and startle reflexes. "It is a very remarkable thing that the unconscious can react upon another, without passing through consciousness," wrote S. Freud, and the author believe that what he described was primarily a bodily phenomenon—resonance. Maternal countertransference was obvious, but it did not end there.
