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April Rohr, LCSW
Practice Director
Psychotherapist
Psychoanalysis
and Psychodynamic Therapy
What is Psychoanalytic Therapy or psychoanalysis?
Suffering is an inescapable part of life, and its causes can often feel unclear or difficult to resolve. Psychoanalytic therapy helps uncover unconscious patterns driving suffering and inner conflict while helping you restore your agency, personal wisdom, and ability to enjoy your own life.
While the term "unconscious" can have an enigmatic connotation, it's less mysterious than it may seem. It's the part of your mind that holds thoughts, feelings, and memories you’re not aware of but that still influence your behavior and emotion. A psychoanalytic approach can help connect different parts of your mind (including unconscious processes) and link past experiences to the present.
Whatever it is that you're struggling with, identifying ways to interrupt obscured psychological patterns can help you break free from self-limiting cycles, enhance your ability to enjoy your own subjectivity, and restore feelings of agency and freedom in your life.
We offer both psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy. Contact us or schedule a free consultation to learn more.
Is Psychoanalytic Therapy Right for me?
Psychoanalytic therapy is a depth-oriented talk therapy. If you're seeking to understand your mind on a deeper level and create lasting change, a psychoanalytic approach may be for you. Some of the unique benefits of this approach include:
- deep insight and greater capacity for self-reflection: uncover the roots of emotional, psychological, or behavioral issues (psychoanalytic therapists are unique in that they are trained to listen for unconscious patterns)
- improvements in personal agency and freedom
- enrichment: a psychoanalytic approach helps elaborate your internal landscape, and creates a new way of experiencing your own reality
- long term change: psychoanalytic approaches offer profound changes in personality and emotional regulation, not just short-term symptom relief
- improvements in relationships and relational functioning: interventions around attachment and intersubjective processes/patterns helps individuals connect more deeply in their relationships, improve their communication, and experience more satisfying, harmonious relationships
The short answer- "Yes!"
Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic treatment are evidence supported treatments with significant empirical evidence supporting their efficacy. For example, Shedler (2010), in his review of numerous meta-analyses, found that the the positive outcomes of psychodynamic therapy are comparable to other established treatments, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), a conclusion corroborated by Leichsenring, F., & Rabung, S. (2008) as well as Høglend, P., et al. (2011).
In addition, there is evidence supporting the unique benefits of psychodynamic therapies, including evidence that it is superior than other treatments in terms of its long term benefits over mere symptom reduction, as well as unique ability to confer emotional and relational benefits in treatment (Shedler,2010).
Does Psychoanalytic therapy actually "work"?
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Psychotherapy
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Depression
Anxiety
