PATIENTS HEAL THEMSELVES

I believe medicine and physicians are mere vehicles and a physician should be only a guide, so that physical healing can be attained through the patient's awareness and evolution.
A disease is a metaphorical expression of an emotional background that has led to the disease itself.
By using analogy, archetypal symbols and graphology as tools, I translate the patient what his /her unconscious wants to convey and this occurs against every logic of the present Medicine.
My starting point is the very physical and verbal expression used by the patient. Beyond its emotional meaning, I look for a collective meaning as well. This kind of language falls within the concept of the collective unconscious discovered by Jung.
The terminology used in the official Medicine to express pathologies denies the effectiveness and the validity of the "patientese", which is instead a collective and emotional language. Many doctors stop the patient as s/he starts describing her or his symptoms and pains by using vivid and personal physical and verbal expressions which, for this very reason, are so important to me. I always ask the patient to describe me his/her disease as if s/he were an illiterate.
I believe there are no diseases, but "the disease", being it but the expression of the patient's pain revealing itself both in the verbal and physical expression.
The fact that a certain disease appears to be inexorably chronic, does but confirm its chronicity in the patient's unconscious. Whereas, if the patient did not think of it, I guess s/he could even recover spontaneously.
I wonder if the blood- tests and check-ups patients undergo serve but to confirm in themselves, the chronicity of the disease through their fear - being this latter a feeling from which the disease springs.

Laughter

The most beautiful healing response is the patients' laughter after I translate them their metaphor.
I almost ever know they will recover. By a laugher they convey me many things: - that they have felt understood and have deeply understood the therapy, that they have kept their distance from the pain which has caused their disease, that they see it as a representation , that they are no more afraid, but above all and at last that there are patients who enjoy themselves while they are being cured.