Multiple levels and codes of the mind, or limitations and possibilities of our relationship with the world

The Authors presents a reading of the multiple code by Wilma Bucci, both as a mind theory, meant as being in a relationship with the world, and as technical theory, that is, as a hypothesis about how the communication between patient and therapist may create transformations in this being in a relationship with the world. Specifically they focus on the process deemed as essential for the therapeutic change - also exemplified by the analysis of the clinical cases presented by the Author: the emergence in the multifaceted subjective experience of symbols mean as multimodal sensory experiences that in the intersubjective communication become definite and recognisable; in the talking cure become central only in a subsequent phase and are primarily the outcome of this process, not its driving force. According to the Authors it is the non-verbal symbolisation together with the subjective experience, which is per se transformative and creative, as it deconstructs the limits of the automatic elaboratoon that happens at a subsymbolic level and widens remarkably the freedom of the subject form themselves. Such non-verbal symbolisation puts the therapist and the patient in condition of taking a stand in respect to the experiences that became recognisable within and thanks to relationship in which they are immersed. That is why the therapeutic change may be defines as an incarnated, contextual and relational process.