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How Psychoanalysis Understands Trauma
“Face” by Transformer18, Flickr.com. Slight changes made. One of the most common underlying problems to depression and anxiety that I encounter in my practice is the experience of psychological trauma....
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Depression in Adolescence: 5 Insights Every Parent Needs to Know
1) Adolescence is a vulnerable period in the life of young people, marked by drastic hormonal changes in the body, rapid cognitive development, shifts in self-image, sexuality and peer relationships....
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One Common Way that Depression Manifests in Adolescence (Hint: You’ve...
Last time, I spoke about depression and adolescence in general, listing 5 insights that every parent needs to know. Today, I want to talk about one common way that depression manifests itself during...
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How to Recognize the Signs of Childhood Depression
Similarly to how it manifests uniquely during adolescence versus adulthood, depression looks differently in early childhood as well. It is important to recognize the signs of childhood depression and...
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Recognizing Early Warning Signs of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Your Baby
As a parent, noticing that something may be different about your baby can be quite worrisome. Naturally, if you are a worrier (and what mother isn’t), your mind may jump to various, scary scenarios....
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Are You a Good Candidate for Psychoanalytic Treatment?
As we enter into the new year and make our resolutions, I wanted to go back to the beginning and answer the question, “Are you a good candidate for psychoanalytic treatment?” Whether you’ve never been...
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Family Therapy and Psychoanalysis: Are they Mutually Exclusive?
As a child and adolescent psychotherapist, a big part of my work involves working with families. One might think that when it comes to family therapy there is no room for psychoanalysis, the...
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7 Things Sigmund Freud “Nailed” About Love & Sex
If there is one thing that almost all of my patients speak about in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in one shape or form, it’s LOVE. Am I really lovable? How do I make my relationship work? Why can’t I...
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Social Anxiety vs. Shyness: How to Recognize the Signs of Social Phobia in...
In my practice, I’ve worked with many teenagers and young adults whose primary presenting concern is social anxiety. That may not be why they come to seek treatment, however. Often, it is because of...
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Being a Couple Versus Being Parents: Why is it So Hard for Some Couples To...
“Hippo love” by Scott Richard; pic by torbakhopper flickr.com Some of you may know that many of my friends and family are at the age of having small children right now, including myself. You can...
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How Does Childhood Trauma Affect Trust?
First, I have to apologize to all of you fans of Practical Psychoanalysis – it was just yesterday that I realized how much time has actually passed since the last time I posted on the blog. You’d be...
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The Hidden Meaning of Self-Injurious Behavior
In this blog post, I look into the hidden meaning of self-injurious behavior from a psychoanalytic point of view and explore some of the common reasons why people harm themselves. I am using a broad...
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Fear of Commitment? Struggle with Anxiety? Maybe You Are Afraid to be Loved
Unconscious fear of intimacy; fear of being loved; fear of commitment; do you allow yourself to be loved? These were a few of my working titles for this blog post. The word that keeps coming up is FEAR...
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How Strong Relationships Can Improve Your Quality of Life
Back in March, I stumbled upon an interesting study one morning on CBS This Morning, addressing the question of “What makes a good life?” I had been thinking about my own clinical work and how many of...
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The First Psychotherapy Appointment: What to Expect and How to Prepare
Did you know that the first therapy session is considered one of the most important sessions in the psychoanalytically-oriented therapeutic process? There is a saying that “the end is in the beginning”...
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Do’s and Don’ts When Dealing with a Break-Up: Lessons from the Movie “Begin...
I just saw a great movie about dealing with loss and break-ups, Begin Again, and have been listening to the soundtrack over and over again for the past 24 hours. I had no idea that Keira Knightly was...
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5 Practical Applications of Castration You Can Use in Your Clinical Practice
“Castration Collage” by Mihaela Bernard Okay, you’ve probably heard the word “castration” before and it was probably in the context of cutting some precious body parts off. If you google it, you’ll...
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work?
Someone recently told me that before coming to see me they thought that people laid on the couch when they go to therapy. “That’s psychoanalysis,” I replied. “Some people still do that.” How does...
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Interview with Dr. Bruce Fink, author of “Clinical Introduction to Freud:...
I am very excited to share with you my interview with Dr. Bruce Fink, a Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor, regarding his new book, “A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for...
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