The hurry and the immediacy are situations which are usually present even in the demand of psychotherapeutic treatment. and one like psychotherapist It is questioned, do the people want to be cured? Are they really looking for a solution to their ailments? Regularly the disappearance of the symptoms is usually the main objective. Who is sad or angry for a recent breaking off and hopes to go where therapist to take away what ails you. A mother who has an issue with her rebellious teenage son and hopes that going to psychotherapy will resolve it. But what about the cost? healing process, Who’s going to pay for it? I am not just referring to the fees of the psychotherapistI mean what it means to do a real life change that makes me move from that place where I have settled in a masochistic enjoyment to savor my symptom.
He psychoanalysis It is a method created by Sigmund Freud and it is the only method that allows us to reach a deep knowledge of us ourselves by discovering what we are and that operates from our unconscious. It is a beautiful and fascinating process, but painful and sad at the same time. Because? Well, sometimes it hurts and causes a narcissistic wound to recognize our part in the meaning of our symptoms, to forgive, to acknowledge our guilt, etc. Naturally, this healing process is opposed by a contrary force, as Newton’s third law says. Between our consciousness of things and our unconscious stands the barrier of resistance that prevents our unconscious representations from emerging into consciousness, despite the psychotherapeutic process motivating it. I remember the case of a young man that I cared for in a rehabilitation home that opened the doors for me for many years to collaborate with them, first as a student, then as a social service provider, professional internships, etc., it was around 10 years, with some intermittencies, and one day this boy was just taking his suitcases because he was leaving, by the way, he had only attended him for no more than five sessions, and he was in a hurry because his mother had arrived for him to take him home, so I asked him to come to the office first. How are you already leaving? I asked him. But you just arrived. – Yes, but my mother takes care of me at home. He responded to me. – But since she already concerns you, are you aware that this is not the first time you have interrupted treatment because she comes for you? What about your family, your wife, your son? You have told me about your desire to be well for them. Not to make the story longer, he left. When I was leaving the office I told her: I understand, a better mother than a wife, a better drug than being away from her (the things that are said in the frame and in the setting have a therapeutic intention, outside of that context they can lead to attacks. There was a context). He looked at me to say: Yes, it’s the choice.
What is this story about? The consulting person, the patient, must become a patient. That is, it is from the moment you arrive at the consultation, but little by little you must take ownership of the treatment, and sometimes this takes time because you even have to take a first step, which was not taken in the previous example. , namely, the consciousness of illness. Recognizing that something is not right and that I need to work on it. The WHO defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” That is to say, just because nothing hurts in my body does not necessarily mean that I am healthy. There are silent illnesses that in psychotherapy, a trained psychoanalytic psychotherapist can help identify. What resources does this have at its disposal? The analysis of discourse, the interpretation of dreams, the patient’s failed actions, the countertransference of the body itself, which in Freud’s words, is the unconscious, etc. The body is the stage where our dramas, our scripts, our emotional characters are staged. Joyce McDougall describes it to us very well.
In conclusion. Do we want to heal? We will probably answer yes, but we must know that the resistance that opposes any process of analytical healing will have to be overcome again and again. Peace and good.
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