Frequently Asked Questions

  • What I recommend is to favor intensity rather than duration. A psychoanalysis which last 3 years twice a week is far better than 12 years every two weeks though number of sessions will be the same. One thing for sure : I am confident psychoanalysis helps to gain time but, fortunately, I am a psychoanalyst not a fortune-teller.

  • This is an old debate which would require hours of discussions. Speaking about “therapy” entails to focus on solving the symptoms. But based on my experience, this strategy can be counterproductive as some mechanisms of psychological constraint could enjoy to simply antagonize your sincere will to cure. When it’s about mental health and psychic pain unfortunately there are no shortcuts.

  • I have a profound reluctance to speak about money here as money is a social invariant which triggers deep psychological mechanisms. My price rates remain decent in accordance to the quality you can expect. In exceptional cases I accept facilities to enable a part of my patient base to enter a psychoanalysis despite of their financial situation but only after a comprehensive discussion.

  • Unfortunately, I can not speak for others, but I can understand this frustration and will take it into account as we work. It is an obstacle in itself as repeating again your story is painful and excruciating. I don’t offer solutions for some symptoms. If someone wants to quit smoking I am not the right practitioner. Likewise, some forms of therapies don’t have theoretical and practical means to go the bottom of the problems you are facing.

  • I think energy and time is better used by parents in a prophylactic manner when children come way earlier. Adolescence is a difficult age of crisis where help can be provided but where some resistances are increased. My answer will depend on a preliminary discussion with both parents before engaging a treatment because their implication is crucial.

  • This question is mainly a question for professionals rather than a relevant question for forthcoming patients. Theories can matter but Psychoanalysis is mainly a practice. More important is what you have to say. Each practitionner has his own “style”. In this work we use what we are as much as what we know or don’t know. I don’t deny it can has sometimes consequences in the approach of supervision