I am interested about less expressive therapists (verbal or non-verbal) triggering affect and further shame in clients with childhood trauma experiences that involved the same,alone or coupled with physical/sexual abuse. The style would be triggering the affect rather than the client transfering it, but any individual therapist might trigger this. There was an interesting response to this after Don's by Adam Rosen but the thread seems to have gotten lost !?? It had to do with use/misuse of analytic silence,therapists justification of and consequential client pain. (This is NOT an adequate paraphrase) It would seem silences and lack of expression need to be addressed early on,especially in trauma clients who need to deal with safety,flashbacks and intrusiveness, when the possibility exists that the style may trigger additional affect in a client with an already full plate.