What is modern psychoanalysis?

 

The classical psychoanalytic tradition primarily directed its attention toward the unconscious, the significance of childhood, and the inner conflicts that can shape a life. Modern psychoanalysis carries this forward, while also taking an interest in what unfolds in the present: in relationships, in the body, and in how a person’s inner life is shaped in interaction with the world they live in.

​

Analysis also carries a future dimension. It touches on the question of how a person wants to live, what they want to take responsibility for, and what direction life may still take. In this way, analysis becomes a work with history, present life, and future: with the forces that have shaped a person, with the patterns active in their life today, and with the possibility of developing a freer relationship to oneself, one’s will, and the possibilities that actually exist.
 

​

How does it work?

​​

Compared with the more classical image of psychoanalysis, there is greater flexibility in the form. The analyst may be more active in the conversation, and one may choose to sit in an armchair or lie on the couch, depending on what best serves the work. The sessions can also take place with different levels of frequency. Some come once a week, others several times a week.
 

​

How does psychoanalysis differ from other forms of treatment and development?

​

​​Psychoanalysis differs from many other forms of treatment and development by seeking to understand the deeper causes of a person’s difficulties, patterns, and life choices. The work is directed toward how these have become part of a person’s way of living, feeling, and relating. Psychoanalysis therefore goes beyond advice, techniques, strategies, or rapid symptom relief. It seeks a deeper change in how a person understands themselves, relates to others, and lives their life.
 

What can psychoanalysis lead to?

​​​

Psychoanalysis offers time, continuity, and an opportunity to approach what might otherwise remain repeated, wordless, or difficult to understand. Over time, what was previously experienced only as fate, necessity, or personal deficiency can begin to be understood in a different way. It opens the possibility of a freer and more conscious relationship with oneself, with others, and with life itself, and of a life that can increasingly be lived from one’s own will and the possibilities that actually exist.

​​

Information​

​

• Session length: 50 minutes.

• Frequency: 1-4 times per week.

• Location: The conversation studio on Engelbrektsgatan in Stockholm.

• Full confidentiality.

For inquiries or to book an initial consultation, you are welcome to contact me at: indre@indresingh.com