How Does It Work?
Mental and emotional health is laid down on what is inborn
from birth by a course of development, both internal and
through emotional contacts with external reality. Patterns
are formed and, although the human mind, brain and
personality remain extraordinarily plastic, once these
patterns are unconscious, they can be hard to change -
making the personality rigid in ways that are difficult and
painful.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy uses the relationship between
the therapist and patient or client to investigate the
structure of the latter’s personality. The therapy itself -
the process, environment, and meeting of therapist and
patient or client - becomes significant in ways that allow
the personality to possibility of change. Together we are
able to make use of our remarkably human ability to allow
one thing to stand for another, and over time the client or
patient can make use of the therapy to radically transform
themselves
