Research suggests that trauma has a profound effect on the body by disrupting normal physiologic response. Whilst people with PTSD may deal with their environment through emotional constriction, their bodies continue to react to certain physical and emotional stimuli as if there was a continuing threat of annihilation. Within the therapeutic encounter both the client and the therapist may have an experience of a lived body, through the experience of two bodies in relationship. It is through this lived body that a therapeutic narrative can arise that may differ from the narrative that arises from cognitive enquiry. It is these embodied experiences that are a way of exploring the intersubjective world created between therapist and client.
