How is one to understand the power of images, their capacity to signify what “regards” us (Didi-Huberman, 1992)? How can art-mediated psychotherapy respond to the clinical aims guiding the rearrangements of the setting required for certain patients for whom classical analysis is not indicated? Taking into consideration certain points of convergence inherent in the psychoanalytic method, such as it is used in the analysing situation and in mediated psychoanalytic psychotherapy, my remarks centre on the figurative power of words and images and on the psychotherapist’s readiness to receive and acknowledge what presents itself in the patient’s narrative in verbal or visual form. The case of a patient suffering from a major depression will serve as substantiation in order to show how the implementation of objectivating techniques facilitates the symbolisation work of primary psychic experiences not metabolised up to that point.