A Psychoanalyst Can Help You:
What is Psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalysis is the most intensive form of psychotherapy. As a therapy, psychoanalysis is based on the observation that individuals are often unaware of many of the factors that determine their emotions and behavior. These unconscious factors may create unhappiness, sometimes in the form of recognizable symptoms and at other times as troubling personality traits, difficulties in work or in love relationships, or disturbances in mood and self-esteem. Because these forces are unconscious, the advice of friends and family, the reading of self help books, or even the most determined efforts of will, often fail to provide relief.
Who Can Benefit from Psychoanalysis?
Typically, the person best able to undergo psychoanalysis is someone who, no matter how incapacitated at the time, is basically, or potentially, a sturdy individual. This person may have already achieved important satisfactions (friendships, marriage, work, special interests and hobbies) but is still significantly impaired by depression or anxiety, sexual incapacities, or physical symptoms without any demonstrable underlying physical cause.
Some are plagued by private rituals, compulsions, or repetitive thoughts, of which no one else is aware. Some people come to analysis because of repeated failures in work or in love, or living a constricted life of isolation and loneliness, incapable of feeling close to anyone. A victim of childhood sexual abuse might suffer from an inability to trust others. And still others seek analysis definitively to resolve psychological problems that were only temporarily or partially resolved by other approaches.
Whatever the problem – and each is different – that a person brings to the analyst, it can be properly understood only within the context of that person’s strengths and life situation. Hence, a thorough evaluation to determine who will benefit from psychoanalysis - and who will not - is needed.
If you have more questions about psychoanalysis, please call 414-291-7036 or go to our Contact page.
- Get relief from painful emotional symptoms.
- Feel understood as a unique individual.
- Achieve emotional freedom.
- Improve your personal relationships.
- Become more productive at work.
- Take more pleasure from life.
- Change lifelong ways of coping that just aren't working.
- Understand feelings and behaviors that just don't make sense.
- Gain greater control over your life.
- Stop self-destructive patterns of behavior.
- Understand yourself.
- Prevent the past from interfering in the present.
- Talk things over in a safe and private environment.
- Unlock your creative potential.
What is Psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalysis is the most intensive form of psychotherapy. As a therapy, psychoanalysis is based on the observation that individuals are often unaware of many of the factors that determine their emotions and behavior. These unconscious factors may create unhappiness, sometimes in the form of recognizable symptoms and at other times as troubling personality traits, difficulties in work or in love relationships, or disturbances in mood and self-esteem. Because these forces are unconscious, the advice of friends and family, the reading of self help books, or even the most determined efforts of will, often fail to provide relief.
Who Can Benefit from Psychoanalysis?
Typically, the person best able to undergo psychoanalysis is someone who, no matter how incapacitated at the time, is basically, or potentially, a sturdy individual. This person may have already achieved important satisfactions (friendships, marriage, work, special interests and hobbies) but is still significantly impaired by depression or anxiety, sexual incapacities, or physical symptoms without any demonstrable underlying physical cause.
Some are plagued by private rituals, compulsions, or repetitive thoughts, of which no one else is aware. Some people come to analysis because of repeated failures in work or in love, or living a constricted life of isolation and loneliness, incapable of feeling close to anyone. A victim of childhood sexual abuse might suffer from an inability to trust others. And still others seek analysis definitively to resolve psychological problems that were only temporarily or partially resolved by other approaches.
Whatever the problem – and each is different – that a person brings to the analyst, it can be properly understood only within the context of that person’s strengths and life situation. Hence, a thorough evaluation to determine who will benefit from psychoanalysis - and who will not - is needed.
If you have more questions about psychoanalysis, please call 414-291-7036 or go to our Contact page.