The levels of consciousness in the form of a sandwich: Alexandra Harrison's theory of therapeutic action

The microanalysis offers the analyst a decisive change of perspective, from the primacy of words to that of non-verbal communication. This is a puzzling, but also potentially creative novelty, which opens up new scenarios with respect to the nature of the psyche. Observing the flow of the procedural exchange in which we are constantly immersed, we can safely say that in it the mind and the body are confused and become one. The therapeutic action, framed in this context, plays out between trust and conscious choice, but the object towards which it is directed is no longer conceivable in the form of a separate mind and reveals itself as a dyadic (or polyadic) system that tends towards a progressive complexification. The author connects some personal experiences of relationship with a thieving magpie with those told by Roger Fouts about his talking chimpanzees and with the therapeutic technique presented to us by Alexandra Harrison.