Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches form an important part of the theoretical foundation of my work. Rather than referring to a single, uniform theory, these approaches encompass different traditions concerned with unconscious processes, recurring patterns, relationships, internal experience, and the ways in which a person relates to themselves and others.

Unconscious Processes, Repetition and Differenciation

Psychoanalytic thought draws attention to aspects of experience that are not always immediately accessible to conscious awareness. Feelings, expectations, conflicts, and ways of relating may recur across different situations without being fully recognized by the person experiencing them.

From this perspective, repetition is not understood simply as the recurrence of the same behaviour. Similar relational positions, emotional experiences, conflicts, or expectations may emerge in different forms and contexts. Exploring these patterns can make it possible to understand how past and present experiences become connected.

Relationships and Internal Experience

Relationships occupy a central place in many psychoanalytic and psychodynamic traditions. The ways in which a person experiences closeness, distance, dependence, autonomy, loss, conflict, and recognition can provide important material for understanding their internal world.

Different psychoanalytic traditions have developed distinct ways of conceptualizing these processes. Object relations theories, theories of the self, developmental perspectives, and other contemporary psychoanalytic approaches contribute different concepts and emphases.

My Theoretical Orientation

Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic perspectives are part of the theoretical foundation of my professional work. My orientation has been shaped by my continuing study of different psychoanalytic traditions as well as my training and ongoing work within the Masterson Approach.

The Masterson Approach, which draws particularly on object relations, theories of the self, and developmental perspectives, has an important place within this broader theoretical orientation.

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