Malinteso: dal mal-intenso a ciò che non si desidera incontrare.

Taking inspiration from Gabriele Profita's paper: "Malinteso e conflitto, il sottile confine tra negoziare e agire", which was published in this Journal in 2014, the author discusses some case studies while also drawing parallelisms with other professions. Some aspects of the phenomenon: "misunderstanding" are thus investigated from the patient's and the psychotherapist's point of view, while also keeping in mind norms and theories. Exemplifications will help to define misunderstandings arising from a condition of suffering which is difficult to verbalize, when both patient and therapist are confronted with unpredictability and the unknown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]