Psychoanalysis
More than symptom relief.
Lacanian-oriented psychoanalysis in Beirut, Adma and online with Mario Abboud, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst.
What it listens for
The person before the diagnosis.
Psychoanalytic work doesn’t treat suffering as a list of symptoms to get rid of as quickly as possible. It asks what those symptoms, repetitions and conflicts might mean in your own history.
It listens to how you say things as much as to what you say: the words that come back, the slips, the dreams, the scenes you find yourself in again and again. Over time, what seemed like fate can become a question, and a question can open other ways of living.
The knot
Everyone is held together somehow.
Jacques Lacan described what holds a person together as a knot of three rings: the Real, what can’t be put into words; the Symbolic, language and the place we are given in it; and the Imaginary, the images we have of ourselves and of others. No two rings are tied to each other. Each is held in place by the third.
When something comes undone, a symptom can be the way a person keeps the knot together. Analysis doesn’t rush to cut it. It looks for what it holds, and for a way of holding that costs less.
Psychotherapy or psychoanalysis?
You don’t have to choose before we meet.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Usually once a week, face to face. It starts from what brings you and listens for what it means in your history. It can be shorter or longer.
Psychoanalysis
Takes the time it needs, follows what you bring, and aims at a lasting change in how you live with yourself and with others.
Deciding
We talk about it in the first consultations, and the form can change as the work goes on.
Formation
Lacanian psychoanalytic formation since 2016, at Being L.C.T.C. and the Forum du Champ Lacanien du Liban.
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