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Some aspects of primary relationships, experienced in the body and registered in body memory, can re-emerge through body language in the sessions with couples. This re-emergence, with the help of therapist countertransference reactions, represents a new opportunity for working through and curing ancient wounds and opens the way to mentalization and in some situations to psychic change, with a process which reduces repetition compulsion. The authors present clinical material in which we can observe the therapeutic work of giving words and meaning to somatic traces.