ANALYTICAL PSYCHOTHERAPY TO TREAT DEPRESSION IN PARIS 9

In Paris or elsewhere, the treatment of depression is particularly significant in showing the difference between "analytical" psychotherapy which makes it possible to cure depression and suggestive or chemical treatments which can soothe depression for a period of time, without really curing it.
To the extent that only treatment that aims at healing can be considered as psychotherapy, we put quotes on the term “analytical” because the expression “analytical psychotherapy” forms a pleonasm.
How to really cure depression?
Treating depression through psychotherapy, in Paris or elsewhere, consists of treating what causes depression, i.e. the intrapsychic conflict from which the depressive symptom originates. Analytical psychotherapy can treat depression treating the source of depressive disorders. To do this, she relies on the method of free associations which consists of saying each of the thoughts, bodily sensations and dreams that cross the mind during the session, without censoring them, without filtering them. From the most innocuous thoughts to the most shameful, free associations will shed light on the psychological conflict that is represented in the depressive symptom.
By respecting the psychotherapeutic contract, by agreeing not to censor the thoughts that come during the session which is not an easy thing insofar as certain intimate thoughts can be difficult to say and accept, the patient goes to the discovery of the origins of her depression and in doing so, be healed. Through his benevolent listening and through his interventions, the psychotherapist promotes the work of free associations. It is therefore not the psychoanalyst who treats depression, it is the psychotherapeutic work that he allows through his silence, his position and his punctuations.
If the psychoanalytic method is universal because it applies to all speaking beings, the meaning of depression is specific to each person. Whether it reveals repressed anger, suppressed hatred, unconfessed love or even a disappointment or sadness present since the first years of childhood, the work of free associations allows, for those who have the desire, to decipher the enigma revealed by their depressive symptoms.
Thus, doing “analytical” psychotherapy makes it possible to treat depression, in Paris or elsewhere, by resolving the unconscious conflict that it represents. Neither magical nor miraculous, psychoanalytic treatment makes it possible to treat the psychic symptom by treating the intrapsychic conflict which produces the symptom.
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If psychotherapy is serious work which can sometimes prove difficult, the benefit that emerges through the elimination of symptoms, particularly depression, is incommensurable. And contrary to popular belief, so-called analytical psychotherapy produces effects very quickly. By releasing the energy that the being maintains without his knowledge in an internal battle which prevents him from moving forward, the psychoanalytic treatment allows the patient to awaken, as the treatment progresses, an energy that he did not suspect. Psychoanalytic work allows you to awaken to your desire and your existence.
The treatment of depression through analytical psychotherapy therefore highlights that this term is a pleonasm. To the extent that it is to date the only method that makes it possible to treat the psychological causes of depression, it turns out to be the only form of psychotherapy that we currently know, in Paris or elsewhere.
As we developed in more detail in our article " Doing analytical psychotherapy in Paris ", if drug treatments or conditioning techniques applied to depression can have therapeutic effects in the short term, they can hardly be considered as psychotherapies insofar as they do not cure the cause of the depression.
The difference between psychoanalysis, hypnosis, sophrology... to treat depression
CBT, hypnosis, sophrology, relaxation, meditation, coaching, etc., these techniques aim to avoid depression and its meaning by psychically isolating it or covering it with “positive thoughts”. But like a race forward where the treatment sometimes itself becomes the symptom, often obsessive; moreover, these avoidance strategies cannot be considered as psychotherapies insofar as they do not aim at healing. From not being truly treated, depression tirelessly returns or moves in the form of another psychic, bodily or organic symptom.
This difference between care and avoidance is very important to the extent that their confusion is particularly harmful, both for patients and for the entire medical-psychological field. (For those who wish to know more about the causes of this persistent confusion, you will find an intervention that we gave at the end of 2019 at SIUEERPP on the causes of the drift in the medico-psychological field )
If you would like to do analytical psychotherapy in Paris to treat your depression or find out more about the treatment of depressive disorders through psychoanalysis, do not hesitate to contact me directly.

Psychotherapy to cure depression

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