ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the significance of the psychodynamic concept of transference and countertransference for body psychotherapy and outlines the idea of bodily resonance as an essential concept of therapeutic interaction. I characterise resonance as an inner somatopsychic reaction of the therapist and as a mutual occurrence in an embodied relationship and discuss this in connection with the concept of empathy and the neuroscientific model of mirror neurons. I compare the model of perception through inner simulation to the phenomenological view of direct perception in intercorporeal interaction. With the aid of therapeutic examples, I discuss how we handle transference, countertransference and resonance in a clinical setting.
