[Inner rupture]

The notion of crisis in psychopathology has several meanings, namely in the medical, psycho-analytic and systemic senses. Each meaning is relevant to its own field of application. However, major existential changes are events whose description defies any purely symptomatic approach, the reason being that what is at stake goes beyond the simple opposition of normal and pathological states. The restlessness that can be perceived when a client grows increasingly perturbed carries in it the seeds of creative behaviour that deserves consideration in all aspects of expression. To achieve this aim, phenomenological research provides interesting avenues: analysis of correspondences between language and emotion, between words, rhythms, colours, gestures and images.