ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author describes a broad congruence between her capacity to face changes in her body and Sasha's capacity to face and verbalize her feelings about the author and significant others. Sasha herself notes how talking about the author leads her to a new examination of her mother's difficulties. Sasha's primary psychological task is to separate from her mother's engulfment, free to embrace and stand up for, her own strength and talent. The connection between direct observation of the author and an opening up in the therapy has occurred with other patients. Often women find it easier to talk about struggles with their body. The chapter traces the interaction between what is known and what is spoken and what is unspoken. In principle a psychoanalytic approach goes beyond social truisms and aims to allow for the taboo to be spoken.
