The Body-Mind Problem in Psychoanalytic Treatment Technique

Rainer Krause, 1942, retired professor, licensed clinical psychotherapist, Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis, German Psychoanalytic Society, training analyst and freelancer, micro momentary expressions, especially facial expressions. List of publications www.prof-rkrause.de Saarland Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Saarbrücken, Saarland beratung(at)prof-rkrause.de

Hardy Maas, licensed clinical psychotherapist, head of the Saarland Institut für psychonalysis and psychotherapy, before psychotherapist in the stats prison of the Saarland, before marine in the German submarine fleet.

Abstract
In recent times, many publications have emerged that deal with the importance of implicit communication in the therapeutic relationship. (Bürgin 2022, Doering 2022, Leikert 2019, Müller -Jung 2024) They assume that success or failure is largely due to the handling of this event. The Saarbrücken researchgroup has shown empirically that this is a valid assumption (Krause 2006). Since communication always requires at least two people, the implicit activities of the therapist are also theoretically increasingly given weight. This was done under the concept of countertransference (Klein 1952), projective identification (Ogden 1979) and the bipersonal field (Baranger M &W 2022) . In my own writings and research, I had set up a model of the relationship process in which I had distinguished the channels of hearing, smell, sight, touch and warmth-sensation and had assigned them to the behavioral classes, Peaking , body movements, affect display and body movements. What has been neglected so far were the therapist's own body perceptions, such as proprioception, afferents , efferent and efferent copies. Finally, the importance of smells was only dealt with very marginally, although they obviously play a major role in implicit communication. This article aims to show that they make the decisive contributions to countertransference. The integration of the different perceptions is made using this behaviour. In addition, both patients and therapists seem to show extraordinarily large interindividual differences in the ability to perceive such sensory perceptions without noticing themselves.

Keywords
implicit communication, psychoanalytic process smell

Cite this paper
Rainer Krause, Hardy Maas, The Body-Mind Problem in Psychoanalytic Treatment Technique , SCIREA Journal of Sociology. Volume 9, Issue 4, August 2025 | PP. 282-292. 10.54647/sociology841461

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