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Vol. 37 No. 1 (2026)
See music, hear movement. Transmodal resonance
From art to psychoanalytic therapy
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Published: 30 April 2026
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The article combines personal experience and theoretical-clinical reflection to explore sensory transmodality, considered by the Author as the founding principle of psychoanalytic dialogue for change. From an early experience that introduced the Author to a real understanding of transmodality, she elaborates a perspective that integrates the neurosciences of action and interoception, the concepts of forms of vitality and implicit knowledge formulated by Stern, and Bucci’s multiple code theory. In the analytical field, change emerges as a referential process that reconnects sensation, gesture, image, sound, and word, and by focusing attention on the how of experience – rhythm, intensity, duration, direction – allows the implicit to be translated into speakable forms. The Author defines this movement as “co-agent transmodal resonance”: an intersubjective process in which patient and therapist share and modulate vital affects through the multimodal flow of experience, generating a sensory dialogue that does not merely rely on mirroring, but gives rise to a new affective configuration that, in the very act of taking form, is realized as a co-created moment of care.
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See music, hear movement. Transmodal resonance: From art to psychoanalytic therapy. (2026). Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 37(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2026.1100
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