THE ORIGIN OF TROUBLES
Each time your client was hurt, he lived through the experience and stored up in some way everything that went on during that experience of being hurt. He stored all the sights and sounds and smells and characters and conversations; the grief or anxiety or anger or pain, and, recorded right in with the rest, a shutdown of his ability to think, since human beings do not think in a sensible, rational way while they are being hurt.
Your client has tried to think through the stored up experience by himself repeatedly, has tried to make sense of it, but has always been balked in getting more than the edges of the experience because to think about it is to experience the inability to think which came with the original pain or painful emotion.