Psychoanalysis

The psychoanalytic therapy does not seek a rational explanation and understanding of causal relationships, but what is sought is to achieve a restructuring of wide spectrum in the personality, with deepening in the affective life and particularly in those areas that contribute and maintain the formation of symptomor in ways defensive that cause discomfort and harm to the person.

The team of psychoanalysts Vertices Psychologistsat its centers in Madrid and the , in Las Rozas, Pozuelo, Torrelodones, Majadahonda, Boadilla, Villalba, El Escorial and Galapagar, offers psychoanalytic therapy to deal with those cases in which it is necessary to solve problems of unrest sustained over time, states of crisis, lack of motivation, fatigue, stress, difficulty making decisions, conflicts and discomfort in the relations with the partner, family, children, with friends, at work; as well as depression, obsessionsphobias, addictions, problems of personality and psychosomatic disorders.

Problems and disorders that Psychoanalysis can treat

ANXIETY DISORDER

Excessive worries about normal life circumstances. It manifests with physical symptoms such as choking sensation, palpitations, chest pressure, restlessness.

ANTISOCIAL DISORDER

Evil, violence, aggressiveness, without feelings of guilt, coldness.

SOCIAL PHOBIA

It consists of the appearance of excessive and pathological anxiety in different situations of social exposure; for example, speaking in public, meeting new people, eating in public places, etc.

BIPOLAR DISORDER

Alternating episodes of low mood or depression, with episodes of exalted mood or mania. On some occasions, the changes in behavior are very serious, generating significant dysfunction in the life and social relationships of the individual. The medication must be continued, in parallel with the psychotherapy, adjusting it according to the symptoms.

See also  Types of disorders we treat

POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

It appears as a result of a traumatic situation, so intense as to put the patient’s life or that of other members of his environment at risk.

DEPRESSION

It is a pathological sadness, which prevents the patient from experiencing pleasure, both in habitual situations and in favorable situations and with activities that had always been pleasant for him before.

PERSONALITY DISORDER

The personal structure and way of being of the individual differs notably from the usual pattern, causing their behavior, their handling of life, their perception of other individuals and their self-esteem, to be out of focus, causing suffering in oneself and in others. .

PANIC DISORDER

It is similar to anxiety disorder but with more acute symptoms than this. The person begins to modify his life, fearing that the crisis situation will repeat itself.

SCHIZOID DISORDER

Introverted, insensitive, indifferent to life, little affective and lonely people.

DEPENDENT DISORDER

Passive people, with a lack of self-esteem, indecisive and highly dependent.

NARCISSISM DISORDER

People with excessive self-esteem, with a tendency to exploit others, arrogant and with a lack of empathy.

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER

Obsessions are recurring and intrusive thoughts. The person recognizes them as absurd, but cannot avoid them. He generates a significant amount of anxiety due to the impossibility of getting these ideas out of his head. Sometimes these ideas cause the individual to perform different acts to compensate for the anxiety caused by the obsessions. These acts are compulsions, which serve to relieve anxiety only for a short period of time and can seriously affect the individual’s life. The most frequent obsessions are cleanliness, rituals, contamination, order or aggressiveness.

See also  individual therapy

PARANOID DISORDER

Distrustful and suspicious people in the extreme.

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER

It is possessed by those people in whom impulsive behaviors, feelings of emptiness, emotional instability and, in some cases, a tendency to self-aggressive behaviors predominate.

avoidant disorder

Hypersensitive people, who systematically avoid certain situations obsessively, anxious and fearful, and with social withdrawal.

histrionic disorder

It occurs in hypersensitive, superficial and highly affective people.

OBSESSIVE DISORDER

It occurs in perfectionist, stubborn, very rigid individuals with a high need for control in their lives and environment.

Work methodology in Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a psychotherapy long process and scope. To achieve adequate results and achieve the objectives pursued by this type of therapy, psychoanalysis must be developed over a period of time. several years with a frequency of about three to five sessions a week. The objective of this type of therapy is to overcome resistance, so that the patient can access the determinations unconscious their feelings, attitudes or behaviors.

In the methodology classicalthe patient lies on a couch and talks, if possible without any kind of censorship, above all what he thinks and feels, that is, regardless of whether what he says seems absurd, irrelevant or compromising, putting into question words all occurrences, ideas or images that come to mind at that precise moment. This technique is called free association and constitutes the fundamental rule of psychoanalysis.

When communicating these contents, the patient should not take into account the insignificant, unpleasantuncomfortable or trivial that these thoughts are, since this would only express the action of the resistors. The analyst, or psychotherapist, for his part, must also respect rules, particularly the following three:

See also  Affectivity

The psychotherapist sits behind the patient and listens, keeping attentive attention. evenly floating and communicating their interpretations of what it expresses. These interpretations are made on the basis of the material that appears during the analytical process. These interpretations are delivered to the patient as many times as the psychotherapist deems appropriate and in the situations that he decides.

The psychoanalyst captures and interprets emotional and functioning patterns throughout the therapeutic process psychic of the patient, as well as the typical mechanisms that the patient repeats in the relationship with him in the form of transfer and, essentially, the formations of the unconscious that arise in the course of the analysand throughout his analysis process, during therapy sessions. The cure or trauma solution or disorder, must take place in such a way that the analysand does not make use of them to obtain substitute satisfactions for his symptoms.