What
is Psychotherapy?
"We can make our minds so like still water
that beings gather about us that they may see,
it may be, their own images, and so live
for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with
a fiercer life because of our quiet. "
WB Yeats
Psychotherapy is the work of healing emotional pain. In part it is an
art
form that demands an openness to the mystery of suffering and behavior
for
therapist and patient. We rely heavily on the exploration of the
unconscious,
that vast vault of recorded pain, pleasure and defense. As therapists
we use a
lifelong study of self to increase our ability to listen. This informed
silence
magnifies presence and elicits new and creative responses in both
patient and
therapist, including curiosity, trust, an expanded sense of self,
access to
feeling, which open pathways through repression and long defended pain . <>From this
unique
relationship
both patient and therapist contend with the
complexity of humanity, the inevitable powerful pain of loss, awareness
of evil
in the world, self and others. This art and science we call
psychotherapy
births a longing for connection that dispels the most
destructive forces of
loneliness, replacing them with choice, passion, opening the ongoing
possibility of a " clearer, perhaps even a fiercer life".
Psychotherapy
is a process aimed at increasing self-a emotional burden, a
backlog of hurt
you might say, that leaves one prone to feel badly, to overreact to
hurts, to
be anxious, to break out in bodily symptoms such as fatigue, headaches,
insomnia, digestion problems and others. The therapist’s unique skill
can help
you lessen your defenses thereby opening awareness to your unconscious
feelings.  Many of these hurts originate in the family, others from
trauma such
as sickness, loss of lovedwareness. This process is
unlike other personal of a kind external circumstances effecting your
pain. The innate desire to avoid pain elicits defense mechanisms that
ward off
attention to that pain thereby creating an ones, interaction because
the therapeutic relationship focuses exclusively on you and your one
victimization, or other forms of bad
luck. Every life has pain, some have more than is fair or tolerable.
Therapy
can
alleviate some of this pain and teach ways to cope with its effects. A
number
of recent studies show that psychotherapy works for both
genetically
affected severe depression and anxiety to less severe pain, such as
mourning
the loss of a loved one. Therapy is established as one of the most
helpful
tools in living a full life.
A single consult can begin a
self help journey that will enrich your emotional life.
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for more info
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