I eventually made the link that as early object relations and primitive mental states that are split-off and stored in the unconscious – where there are no words, only feelings, that by paying attention to my viscera occasioned by the patient, was the primary, if not the only way to those places of harm that had been cut-off, defended against and projected into others in damaging ways.

Moonias! Moonias! (White Man White Man) the children screeched as I stood outside their home on the Maskwacis First Nations Reservation.

It’s easier being in each other’s presence, or in each other’s absence than in the constant presence of each other’s absence. – Gianpiero Petriglieri