What is Psychoanalysis?

Psychoanalysis is a talking therapy that departs from the position that we are moved by unconscious processes as much as we are by conscious ones.

What does it mean?

Our adult life is marked by traces of our early life, and whether we are aware of it or not, the past plays an important part in how we relate to ourselves, to others, and to the situations we encounter.

However, it is not all about the past. The unconscious gives value to symptoms, so in psychoanalysis we listen to what lies behind the symptom.

By speaking freely in a psychoanalytic context, with a specific way of listening by the analyst, the conflicts and fears that underlie our difficulties may gradually become less painful.

Psychoanalysis offers the possibility of creating a new narrative, not by erasing the past or getting rid of symptoms, but by finding new ways to give meaning to one’s experiences and therefore to one’s relationship to life.