The following hypotheses developed out of Bruno's clinical work:
Sensitivity is an essential function in all living things. It is the natural ability to perceive correctly and respond spontaneously to internal and external stimuli. No ideology can replace it.
After being subjected to a traumatizing experience, the awareness of the emotions one experiences is repressed or dissociated. To overcome the fear is often overlooked in emotional- and body-oriented therapies. Behind the repressed fear are emotions and a sense of context that the patient can perceive after the fear has been confronted and expressed. If the fear remains unconscious, the therapeutic opportunity to restore the patient's inborn capacities is lost, and the patient's sensitivity and ability to see causality are affected. Reactions to the original event are instead directed towards stimuli that resemble the original. The emotions are projected unconsciously to these objects. So might the fear of expressing rage against a father become hate against a more or less fictive enemy.
The therapist's role is to help patients become aware of the fear that had been blocking or distorting their sensitivity and assist them in finding the courage to confront and overcome this fear.