Practice
Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy​
​Psychoanalysis is a process where the emotions, thoughts, wishes and fears of the person seeking assistance are listened to and understood deeply. People seek analysis at different moments in their lives, and for a variety of reasons. Some come seeking a way out of painful interactions with loved ones. Others come searching for self-understanding to heal emotional and psychological pain. Others want to work through difficult and important life decisions, and feel that blockages, deeper than what they can consciously fathom, cloud their view. Others, having grown dissatisfied with life, feel themselves to be in their own way.
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In psychoanalysis, we meet often, three to four times in a week. In this way, we are able to stay as close as we can to the feelings, and in contact with the parts that are harder to reach. Some analysands might use the couch in order to find contact with their inner most thoughts, without the distraction of another person looking at them.The usual conventions of conversation are dropped here. Other analysands prefer to speak face to face, and the traditional upright position feels like the best way to speak to another about their emotions.
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In psychoanalytic psychotherapy, we meet less frequently—once or twice a week—but the same principles for talking, listening, and understanding apply. The aim is to better understand oneself in interaction with one’s own mind as well as with others. The setting may be the same as in analysis, although typically the work is conducted in the vis-à-vis position.
