Bedwetting (Enuresis)

It happens during sleep. In the moment when all control falls away, when conscious will pauses, the body lets go — uncontrolled, unwanted, in silence. In the morning: the wet bedding. And with it, often: shame, uncertainty, the feeling of not having a grip on something fundamental.

Medically, bedwetting — enuresis — is regarded as a delayed maturation of bladder control. In children it is developmentally normal up to a certain age. In older children and adults, medicine searches for hormonal, neurological, or anatomical causes. And frequently finds nothing concrete.

The psychosomatic perspective asks a different question: What happens in a person's inner experience when their body does at night what is not permitted during the day — let go? The bladder is not the real subject here. What lies behind it is: a deep inner tension that searches for a release valve during sleep.