“What appealed to me in science were the concrete facts and their historical background, and in comparative religion the spiritual problems, into which philosophy also entered. In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.”
from Jung, C. G. (1989). Memories, dreams, reflections (A. Jaffé (ed.); R. Winston & C. Winston, trans.; p. 430). Vintage Books. (Original work published 1961).
Psychotherapy researchers Butler and Strupp on the embodied nature of interventions
“[Therapeutic interventions] cannot be reduced to a set of disembodied techniques because techniques gain their meaning and, in turn, their effectiveness from the particular interaction of the individuals involved.”
from Butler, S., & Strupp, H. (1986). Specific and nonspecific factors in psychotherapy: A problematic paradigm for psychotherapy research. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 23, 30—40.
Psychoanalyst Harold Blum on the speechlessness of acute trauma
In the traumatized patient, the capacity to tolerate frustration, to delay action in favor of thoughtful contemplation, to freely verbalize feelings and fantasies with preservation of self-observation and reflection are extremely important.
These skills are important for all analytic work, but they are particularly pertinent in the traumatized patient because the original traumatic situation is always speechless.
Speech is impossible during acute traumatization, and the frozen cognition, the strangulated affects of silence or screams, and the motor tendencies toward flight, fight, or chaotic thrashing all have to be ultimately replaced by verbalization. The fantasies in which the trauma has been embedded, embellished, elaborated, and validated have to be repeatedly verbalized as a central part of analytic work.
Matthew M. Sholler, Psy.D. 
