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The author describes her experience of conducting a slam poetry workshop as therapeutic mediation for psychologically-ill adults. This article describes the psychic stakes at work when loud declamation occurs and the effects perceived by the subjects when expressing their feelings through texts. Because it is situated at the interface between body and language, slam as a therapeutic mediation enables the actualization of attunement between sensorial feelings and language. The subjects may attempt a (re)tuning between the significant value of words and their affective value, according to D. Stern’s cross-modal affect attunements. By directly mobilizing its listeners, slam, as practiced in a group setting, may help restore a shared encounter and transform instances of acting out trapped within the suffering into an action-creating subjectivity.