ABSTRACT
Positive emotions, in any case are always important for the course of therapy, often in ways that the therapist is hardly aware of, even when they end up being the main driving force of therapeutic success. The gentleness of client-centred therapy maximised the positive emotions of joy, communion and interest, trying to help the patient understand their own negative emotions through empathy. Therapy ended after a few sessions and, shortly afterwards, Enrico was involved in a fight outside a disco, where two people were killed. Therapy is often an interesting and enjoyable activity, for sure, but experience tells us that it also includes anxiety, fatigue, fear, insecurity, headaches, feelings of inadequacy, a sense of one's limits—and boredom. Boredom is a powerful emotion, rather than an absence of emotion. A boring session is frequently charged with a heavy, oppressive feeling, which creeps into the therapy room, enveloping persons and things and blocking them in a static frame.
