Encapsulated body engrams and somatic narration - integrating body memory into psychoanalytic technique

Summary: The author investigates bodily defence strategies that mass together to encapsulate body engrams, inhibiting vital impulses and excluding them from mental representation and transformation. A treatment technique involving careful description of bodily sensations as an attempt at communication is proposed, aiming to invite encapsulated bodily engrams into the stage of analytic relation. The restoration of the damaged function of dream imagination, i.e. translating psychic states into pictures, occurs after processing these constellations through the method outlined.