GETTING OUT OF AN OBSESSIVE NEUROSIS THROUGH PSYCHOTHERAPY IN PARIS

When Sigmund Freud discovered obsessive neurosis at the end of the 18th century, he also discovered a way to treat it: the psychoanalytic method. Thanks to this discovery, it is therefore possible today to escape from an obsessive neurosis through psychotherapy, in Paris and everywhere else.

Indeed, obsessive neurosis is a psychological structure which is represented, in its pathological form, by a certain number of thought disorders.

If obsessions constitute one of the major symptoms of obsessive neurosis, it should be noted that obsessions are not always easy to recognize. Many people have obsessions but do not realise the symptomatic dimension of their way of thinking. In general, it is those around you, close or distant, who pay the price for this compulsive thought which turns on itself.

To escape from an obsessive neurosis through psychotherapy, in Paris or elsewhere, the obsessive neurotic must first be able to realise the pathological dimension of his functioning.

This is not an easy thing because the obsessive neurotic can have a very great capacity to justify his own symptoms with closed systems of rationalisation. “Society”, “genetics”, “destiny”, etc., many erroneous obsessive theories allow the neurotic to avoid confronting the enigma of his symptom, or the enigma of his own desire.

It is therefore often after a bereavement, a romantic separation or a professional failure, that the obsessive neurotic finds himself confronted with the weight of his symptoms and he may therefore want to meet a psychoanalyst to get out of his obsessive neurosis .

Beyond obsessions and the propensity to create or adhere to erroneous theories, obsessive neurosis is characterised by a pathological propensity for doubt which can be compensated by rigid beliefs and fixed ideas. Characterised before Freud as a true “madness of doubt”, the compulsive tendency to doubt in obsessive neurosis can become very disabling.

Between excessive doubt and certainties, between lack of self-confidence and excess assurance, the tendency to withhold and prodigality, inaction and repetitive acts, procrastination and hyperactivity, neurosis Obsessiveness presents itself in very different ways depending on each person's subjectivity and history.

Oscillating between the obsession with conformism and that of limitless freedom and rebellion, obsessive neurosis is structured on a system of opposition which illustrates the fixation of the ambivalent relationship to demand.

Thanks to the psychoanalytic method of free associations, the patient or the psychoanalyst can little by little reveal the enigma that their symptomatology presents and in doing so, resolve it.

Through this psychotherapy work, anyone who so desires can emerge from their obsessive neurosis , in Paris or elsewhere.

Contrary to all the illusory promises of brief treatment and miraculous solutions (CBT, coaching, audiobook, pills, relaxations, etc.), it is impossible in psychotherapy to predict in advance how long this journey will take, if it will last. a few months or a few years.

But so as not to frighten anyone who wants to do serious work to get out of an obsessive neurosis , we can specify that the process of healing through psychotherapy begins from the start of treatment. In Paris or elsewhere, it is not uncommon to see very serious symptoms dissipate after the first sessions.

As psychotherapy progresses, the energy that the neurotic wastes in the overinvestment of his thoughts, in his ruminations, his doubts and his obsessions, is reinvested in thoughts and actions constructive for the being, put at the service of his desire.

Thanks to psychotherapy, anyone who wishes can escape from their obsessive neurosis, in Paris or elsewhere.

If you would like to know more about psychotherapy for obsessive neurosis or if you would like to make an appointment to get over it , do not hesitate to contact me directly.

In Paris , April 24, 2020