My dissertation is an ethnography of equine-assisted psychotherapy. In it, I pursue and problematize the idea of “psychotherapy as conversation." Beginning with Das’ (1997) encouragement to understand “pain as the beginning of a language game,” I am interested in the possibilities offered by understanding conversational relationships ordered less by subject-object thing relationships and more by musical relationships of rhythm, thereby raising fundamental questions about how we understand language within communicational dialectics that can transform human experience.