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The authors present a research project in progress since 2017 on sensory manifestations in the family analyst and their elaboration. The object of study is the mental life of the same family psychoanalysts who carry out the research; they will evoke their countertransference during the process of their clinical cases, their associations, feelings, ideas and reveries. This is done in a videoconference group and through intervision of the cases presented. Both the groupality and the intervision allow for a critical regulation of counter-transferential expressions and a restrained application of the principles of empirical research: explanation and comprehension by third parties, verification, doubt, refusability. In this way, the group settles into a regressive state of suspended judgment. Group thinking can then flourish; the group associative chain, topographical synchronisation, intersubjective tuning and the solicitation of our preconscious will open out on to unexpected horizons. The cases studied suggest that co-sensoriality is fertile in permitting discoveries concerning the unconscious family functioning; it ensures and energizes the emotional involvement of patients and therapists, favouring the creation of a neo-group; the therapeutic effects are notable. Two clinical vignettes illustrate this work.