ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explores the possibility of verbalising what happened there, during the touch-treatment: through him, through his clients—and through our shared work together. During the first few years of his practice, a man called to set a meeting. Any practitioner who ever worked with touch would testify that the field is prone to stalking phone calls. A man called, and he was strange, incoherent, confused, yet insisted on setting a meeting. Commonly, people complained of physical pains or wanted to relax, but during the sessions other things would emerge, depending on what happened together, in the room. M. Balint speaks of a dark, deep fracture at the bottom of people who are psychically damaged, whose wound is deeper than any neurotic conflict that might be deciphered through verbal therapy. The basic fault includes the psychosomatic structure of the person, and people with such a wound cannot be worked through with verbal interpretation alone.
