Author: Fernando Rocha

Calm psychoanalytic therapy room with two armchairs facing each other and soft natural light.

Silence and the Experience of Nothing to Say There are moments in therapy when nothing seems to arrive. Words feel distant, unformed, or oddly irrelevant. A person may say that they have nothing to talk about, that everything feels flat, or that the session has gone quiet in a way that feels uncomfortable or pointless.…

An exploration of repetition and resistance from a psychoanalytic perspective, and why change cannot be rushed.

Many people come to therapy with a concern about what they say, or what they struggle to say. They may worry about saying the wrong thing, not knowing where to begin, or filling the space with words that feel beside the point. Often, this concern is accompanied by another quieter anxiety, what happens when nothing…