On Touching a Patient

摘要

ABSTRACTThis paper explores the conflicting as well as complementary relation between interpretation and touch in psychotherapy. It attempts to make sense of a clinical experience in which the change of orientation and framework undergone by the therapist in the course of a patient's treatment provided an opportunity for the therapeutic relationship to move from a body‐therapy approach to a psychoanalytic one. It suggests that this particular experience may offer opportunities for discussing some problems encountered in the field of clinical practic