The psychotherapeutic process, based on psychoanalytic theories, aims at reducing anxieties and psychic suffering, increasing self-knowledge and transforming the inner world in a profound and lasting way.

How does it work?

Focus is given to emotions, subjective meanings, unconscious experience, dreams, and patterns of relationships with others. Often there are several conscious and unconscious dimensions of day-to-day experience. Psychotherapists, by establishing a safe, trustworthy and non-judgmental space, provide an environment where one can explore aspects of one's inner experience and experience with others.

Who can benefit?

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy can help people who suffer from the following problems:

• Anxiety;
• Depression;
• Problems in relationships with others;
• Difficulties related to the work environment;
• Eating disorders and problems with the image;
• Obsessions and Compulsions;
• Persistent self-critical thoughts;
• Lack of motivation;
• Feeling of emptiness inside;
• Psychosomatic diseases;
• Difficulties of concentration;
• Trauma;
• Difficulties in dealing with loss or mourning.

However, there is no need to have a problem to seek psychoanalytic psychotherapy. This type of therapy can also be very useful for people who simply want to explore their inner world in order to become more effective at work, in their personal relationships and in life in general.

Difference between Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Although based on the same theories of the mind, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis differ in several respects.

Psychotherapy typically occurs once or twice a week, face to face with the therapist. Psychoanalysis occurs with a weekly frequency of three to four times, and involves the person lying down on the couch, with the therapist seated behind him.

A first consultation is recommended to determine the best treatment for each case.