Psychotherapy
What is Psychotherapy?
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy represents one of the means of accessing the mental functioning, constituting a way of achieving self-knowledge and understanding psychiatric and psychosomatic symptoms and their respective treatments. This may be applied in isolation or in association with other therapeutic means, such as psychopharmacology.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy may be divided into different types:
- Individual Psychotherapy
- Psychoanalysis
- Group Psychotherapy Analysis
- Group Analysis
Its structural foundations rest on the importance of relationships and empathy in the development of personality and in therapy as well as the relevance of subconscious/non-conscious phenomena.
Despite the recognition of Freud as the father of psychoanalysis, a great deal of other researchers have since contributed to the development of both dual and group psychotherapy, supported by contributions made by different fields, especially the neurosciences, paediatrics, research into child development, among others.
Psychotherapy analysis deploys a technique mediated by the empathic therapeutic relationship that sets out to investigate the past in order to understand the present, liberating us from imprisoning ghosts. The objective is to develop the individual capacities that enable the construction of a free and more appreciable future.
Group psychotherapy analysis and group analysing also leveraged the dynamic gains produced by groups to understand and treat each individual. Being useful, being similar to other and belonging to a protected environment are conditions that, just in themselves, reduce the feelings of guilt, shame, inferiority that lie at the core of a great part of the suffering of human beings.
Groups are “rooms of mirrors” where our own images become clearer alongside those of others and enable us to observe and be observed. It is thus that there emerge more realistic images of our own selves and of other while also enabling the opportunity to produce new perspectives and new knowledge (insights) that open the path to the resolution of conflicts and the development of creativity and autonomy.
Exercising the function of psychotherapist and the respective clinical practice requires complex and demanding training in specific firms.
Take the first step towards a healthier future and schedule your in-person or online psychotherapy appointment with us!
Where we are
Avenida Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro 57,1º-D, 1070-061 Lisbon, Portugal
Get in touch
Tel: 217276782
(Cost of a call to the national fixed network)
Email: dinisenetopsic@gmail.com