ABSTRACT
In a two-person psychology with the theoretical extension of psychoanalysis, following the guidelines of Ferenczi, the analysand is continuously responding to the ongoing dual communication of the therapeutic process, both consciously and unconsciously. More than trying to resolve repression, the therapist becomes a witness and a helpful and benevolent observer to patterns of re-enactments of trauma and unconscious material. Dissociated or denied parts, unconscious also in the sense explained of unrepressed unconscious (of earlier formation or a dissociated nature) will return in the dual communication of right brain to right brain, and these mnestic traces and implicit behaviors may be finally cleared out, thanks also to the momentarily embodiment of the emotions of the traumatic core by the therapist. The therapist will empathically attune themselves at first to receive all information, worked-through in their body (including the activation of the polyvagal system, as in the case when the therapists themselves feel pain, headache, stomach-ache, or even experience bowel movements and nausea), in a sort of mutual regression, where the therapist works in the windows of affect regulation and proceeds to the higher levels of emotional processing, recognition, and verbal recoding and signification of the meaning of the experience, even intergenerationally. Face-to-face treatment facilitates the healing process thanks to the affect regulation provided by the gaze, the face expression and the complex nonverbal communication stemming from the body.
