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
