EXISTENTIAL ANALYSIS · 36(2) · 14 JULY 2025
The unsayable in clinical practice
AUTHOR
Jay BardwellNew School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, London
PUBLISHED
14 July 2025
Abstract
What is the status of what cannot be said in therapy? This paper distinguishes the merely-not-yet-said from the structurally unsayable, and argues that conflating them produces a characteristic clinical error.
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Bardwell, J. (2025). The unsayable in clinical practice. Existential Analysis, 36(2). https://doi.org/10.65828/ea.36.2.002