Psychoanalyst

A psychoanalyst is a specialist who has been educated in a university of psychoanalysis and has met certain standards.

Training to become a psychoanalyst takes several years. It is impossible to say exactly how long, and here's why. Unlike all other professions, it is not enough for a psychoanalyst to pass all the exams. The training continues until both the teachers and the candidate agree that it is fully completed. Once the theory and practice of psychoanalysis has been studied, an experienced specialist must undergo psychoanalysis himself, and receive the necessary number of supervisions for his work with clients.

Before trusting a psychoanalyst, it is useful to find out how long he or she has been studying the profession and whether he or she has undergone his or her own training analysis to make sure that his or her own unconscious exists, to work through his or her own problems before taking on the problems of other people.

Often, specialists who have received psychoanalytic education call themselves psychologists of the psychoanalytic direction.

The peculiarity of psychoanalytic psychotherapy is that therapy is not necessarily conducted on a couch. The frequency of counselling is 2-3 times a week, and in psychoanalysis 4-5 times a week.

Both the psychoanalyst and the psychologist of the psychoanalytic direction try to make the unconscious of the client conscious. Thus, during a consultation with a psychoanalyst, the patient learns about himself and harmonises his life.

A psychoanalyst will help you if:
Clients come to a psychoanalyst - as well as to a psychotherapist - not with a problematic reservation or a nightmare, but with much more serious difficulties - constant failures, depression, and relationship problems. But the psychoanalyst is looking for the reasons for this in small inferred and spoken ‘reservationsx’, which he will then work with from the point of view of psychoanalysis.

Another source for analysis is dreams as the embodiment of unfulfilled desires. As Freud said, ‘Dreams are the royal way of knowing the unconscious’. The object of analysis can also be some small mistakes, as well as free associations - you simply combine the flow of your cognition into a verbal form, and the psychoanalyst ‘decodes’ it.

The effectiveness of psychoanalysis largely depends on the delicate relationship that is usually established between the client and the analyst. This is the so-called phenomenon of transference (or transfer). The essence of transference is that the patient subconsciously associates the analyst with the objects of his or her earliest attractions. The patient transfers his or her feelings for someone from his or her real life to the psychoanalyst. This transfer reveals the specifics of the patient's personal life, and the task of psychoanalysts is to help the patient see them.

The second important aspect of psychoanalysis is overcoming resistance. The patient, protecting himself or herself from the awareness of painful things hidden in the unconscious, may be late, avoid talking about a topic, avoid giving accurate answers, and even express aggression towards the psychoanalyst. The task of the analyst is to show and help the patient to understand his or her actions and what lies behind them. As a result of the psychoanalyst's actions, the patient comes to understand the mechanisms that shape his or her own behaviour.

IF YOU HAVE DECIDED TO SEEK PSYCHOANALYSIS, your courage deserves respect, because you have decided to try to live a happier life than before.

During the consultation, I will
I will make an effort to help you learn how to deal with your internal conflicts and problems

ON YOUR OWN!

I KNOW HOW TO HELP YOU!
Psychologist of psychoanalytical direction Aelita Garnitskaya