Category: Journal
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A Note on Psychoanalysis
A clear introduction to psychoanalysis. Learn how psychoanalytic therapy works in Sydney or online, and what makes it different from other approaches.
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On Anxiety: When the Body Speaks Before the Mind Can
Anxiety arrives before you have had time to think — the body already responding to something the mind has not yet named. Psychoanalysis does not ask how to stop it, but what it might be saying.
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Is Psychoanalytic Therapy Only for Mental Illness? Beyond Diagnosis and Crisis
At certain thresholds, what has long been repeated can begin to be spoken differently.
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When You Know What to Do But Cannot Do It
Knowing what needs to change and being unable to change it is one of the most frustrating human experiences. Psychoanalysis does not treat this as a failure of will — it asks what the inability is carrying, and what conflict it holds in place.
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Transference in Psychoanalytic Therapy: Why Therapy Can Feel Personal
Transference describes how past relational patterns emerge in the therapeutic relationship, shaping what feels personal and becoming central to analytic work.
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When Nothing Comes to Mind: On Empty Speech and the Work of Waiting
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.…
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Repetition and Resistance in Psychoanalytic Work
An exploration of how repetition and resistance operate within analytic speech.
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On Speaking, Silence, and What Therapy Listens For
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…