Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy

What feels like a hassle that could destroy or kill you may actually be a sign that you’re alive. Ambivalence is the experience of conflicting emotions while continuing to live your life.

Sometimes bad feelings and tough choices mean you’re still alive and trying to live, not that you’re doomed.

Psychoanalytic work, *broadly defined*, is poetry in motion...a dance with the unconscious. It is a process of discovery within a relationship that unfolds over time and across potential space, fostering meaning and offering a profound opportunity: the opportunity to take responsibility, to transform, to create, to develop, to accept, and to... See more

When both patient and therapist can embrace this fluid experience of time, working through becomes possible. Time itself appears to shift; past and present are felt as interconnected rather than separate. Within the therapeutic encounter, both parties must reckon with the passage of time and the loss and change it carries. For LaFarge, the dyad's... See more

When considering the concept of ‘time’ in analysis (psychotherapy), it is important to recognize:

• Time in treatment is nonlinear: the past is being re-experienced in the present and considered for the future.


• Individuals develop a sense of time during the early stages of life (rooted in infancy).


• Time can serve as a container for the frame of sessions

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Home

Our first home is our mother's womb. Our experience here sets up how we form a home in the future. Home resembles the foundation of our inner world, our template for forming relationships to and with others.

Clothing and style, as described above, are evocative. Our choices in what to wear reflect personal fantasies and desires, both affecting us and influencing the perceptions of others. The responses we provoke are, in part, shaped by our earliest memories of being dressed before we could dress ourselves.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. But deeper than that, the clothes we wear and the style we express to others are connected to the psyche & psychoanalysis.