What is Analysis?

Analysis is an intimate partnership, in the course of which you ideally become aware of the underlying sources of your difficulties not simply intellectually, but emotionally - by re-experiencing them with me. Typically, you would come to analysis three or four times a week, lie on a couch, and try to say everything that comes to mind. These conditions create the analytic setting, which permits the emergence of aspects of the mind not accessible to other methods of observation. As you speak, hints of the unconscious sources of current difficulties gradually begin to appear - in certain repetitive patterns of behavior, in the subjects which you find hard to talk about, in the ways you relates to me.  
   I try to help elucidate these for the you, and I may refine, question, or extend your thoughts, and add further thoughts and feelings of my own. Over the time that an analysis takes place, you wrestle with these insights, going over them again and again with me, and experiencing them in daily life, in fantasies, and in dreams. We join together in efforts not only to modify crippling life patterns and remove incapacitating symptoms, but also to expand the freedom to work and to love. Eventually -- ideally -- your life, behavior, relationships, and sense of self  all change in deep and abiding ways.
  Analysis is based on the observation that you are often unaware of many of the factors that determine your emotions and behavior. These unconscious factors may create unhappiness, sometimes in the form of recognizable symptoms and at other times as troubling personality traits, difficulties in work or in love relationships, or disturbances in mood and self-esteem. Because these forces are unconscious, the advice of friends and family, the reading of self-help books, or even the most determined efforts of will, often fail to provide relief. 
  Analytic treatment demonstrates how these unconscious factors affect current relationships and patterns of behavior, traces them back to their historical origins, shows how they have changed and developed over time, and helps the individual to deal better with the realities of adult life.  Because this kind of therapy can be very intensive and long-lasting, it is best for those individuals who are introspectively inclined, and who are willing to devote a substantial amount of time and money to their analysis.
 I have a sliding fee scale ranging from $50 a session. Please call or e-mail to set up a  free consultation: 
Mikita@networktherapy.com
Phone: 717-860-5204

Information and Articles

 
Sigmund Freud, The Dream as Wish Fulfilment    
Ernest Hartmann, The Nature and Functions of Dreaming
Information about the theories of C.G. Jung
Mikita Brottman, The Two Freuds, Chronicle of Higher Education