Psychoanalysis in Edinburgh and Beyond
I am a psychoanalyst in Edinburgh, and I provide a space to meet in Edinburgh city centre (central close to Waverly, Princes Street, Lothian Road etc).***
I also provide online remote sessions for people not living close to Edinburgh (telephone and video calls).
True or authentic psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy is an open-ended conversation with no agenda and no time limit (i.e. number of sessions). The practice of psychoanalysis attends to the person who comes for analysis, to listen and witness their concerns, and to facilitate, if possible some kind of loosening of the strictures than bind and contort experience.
I work with people with different needs who are sufferring from mental distress. I have experience of working with people suffering anxiety, domestic abuse, depression, addiction, panic attacks, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, psychosis and schizophrenia type disorders. I also work with people who have feelings of low confidence, motivation issues, academic difficulties and helping people with the psychological transition/challenges of coming off antidepressant medication (e.g., SSRI's; e.g., prozac, seroxat, citalopram etc). However, one has to reliase that many labels, from a true psychoanalyitic perspective (of "disorders" or "mental health" issues) are very problemtic. These labels are often weaponised and overused which can confuse true undertanding of what is going on.
I offer clinical supervision, academic support, and help in reflective practice.
"The psychotherapeutic relationship is therefore a re-search. A search constantly reasserted and reconstituted for what we have lost, and which some can perhaps endure a little more easily than others. True, in the enterprise of psychotherapy there are regularities, even institutional structures, pervading the sequence, rhythm and tempo of the therapeutic situation viewed as a process.... But the really decisive moments in psychotherapy, as every patient or therapist who has ever experienced them knows, are unpredictable, unique, unforgettable, always unrepeatable, and often indescribable." R.D. Laing, Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst; Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise, 1967, p47.
If you feel like you could benefit from a consultation, please visit my other pages on this website and to find out more.
Latest news: Paper I wrote in new book about about R D Laing: (click on link here): R.D. Laing and the Politics of Truth: Self, Society and Therapy - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
*** It is helpful to distinquish between mainstream "psychotherapy" or "psychoanalytic psychotherapy" as practiced by the majority of practitioners today, and "psychoanalysis". See other page "On Psychoanalysis" for more information.
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