An in-depth approach to treatment of longstanding concerns and relationship difficulties
psychoanalysisPsychoanalysis includes meeting multiple times per week which can facilitate a deepening and intensity of the treatment which can help to uncover and modify deeper longstanding unconscious patterns of relating to the self and others.
Analysis can be conducted face-to-face sitting up or lying on the couch.
People often seek psychoanalysis with me in order to:
Achieve lasting and/or deep change
Uncover and integrate repressed, disavowed or denied parts of the self
Address long standing grief, pain and disappointments
Address inhibitions, anxieties and self-sabotaging behaviors
Work with dreams
Continue development that appears to have arrested in some way
Connect with passion, longstanding goals and pursue dreams
Identify and shift patterns of behavior, thinking or relating that are problematic
Get to know the self better and develop deep self-confidence
Increase joy and pleasure
Enable more flexibility in thinking and more freedom of expression
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Psychoanalysis FAQs
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Yes and no. Not everyone wants to participate in an in depth treatment that consists of meeting many times per week for an open ended period of time and not everyone has the time and money to make such an investment in themselves even with sliding scale options or insurance reimbursements. In addition, in some cases another treatment approach may be a better option and more effective to address your concerns. If you are interested in psychoanalysis, please reach out so that we can discuss this more, reflect on what you are seeking and see if I can be of help to you.
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Traditionally, psychoanalysis consists of meeting 4 or 5 times per week laying on an analytic couch with the analyst sitting behind you. Many contemporary psychoanalysts such as myself also offer psychoanalysis in less frequent meetings or sitting up face to face. If you are interested in psychoanalysis or psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy please let me know and we can see if I can be of help to you.
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It varies. It is a highly personal process that takes as long as it takes. Part of the way that psychoanalysis works is that it is open-ended which facilitates a deepening that otherwise would not occur if it were limited to a year or two. Some analytic processes last very long and some are shorter. The goal is not to stay in analysis forever, however, and to facilitate a process that is healing and transformative and that works through the fullness of saying goodbye and ending as this is a very important part of the process as well.