[Therapeutic management of habitual body language].

Habitual nonverbal behavior introduces the therapist to at times intense counter-transference reactions. The therapist becomes a participant to early object relations. If you succeed in concentrating the attention onto the interactional process you will observe, which signal system triggers the counter-transference reactions. If this system of signals is expressed by the patient in response to a situation or verbalized, the therapist can respond to the concurrent behavior. Counter-transference relations become clear and early (often preverbal) object-relations can be reconstructed. Habitual nonverbal behavior occurs when object-relations are either lacking ore obstrusive.