guilt Interview with Helena Trujillo psychoanalyst in the magazine Consumer Eroski
Helena Trujillo, psychoanalyst
"Psychoanalysis is that diseases are caused by unconscious processes, such as phobias"
Psychoanalysis is a discipline that deals with the study of the human psyche. Created by Sigmund Freud in the late nineteenth century, is a recent science bears many myths and prejudices. Should we continue this therapy for many years to heal? Is there a certain level of education for psychoanalysis? Helena Trujillo serves as analyst for several years, working with various media and teaches courses and lectures on this topic. In this interview, removed some of the myths that distance psychoanalysis of society and upholds the validity of a science as practice and little known.
Por CLARA BASSI 21 de septiembre de 2010
¿Qué problemas puede tratar el psicoanálisis?
Toda ciencia tiene sus límites. El psicoanálisis puede ocuparse de patologías que tengan su origen en procesos inconscientes, neuroses, hypochondria , phobias, obsessions, psychosomatic diseases, among others. You can not treat autism, congenital or other diseases resulting from an organic lesion.
What is the work of the psychoanalyst?
It resembles a translator. Have the theoretical tools and techniques needed to interpret the contributions of the patient. Not surprisingly, they never unconscious contents to consciousness directly, but indirectly through the slips, symptoms, failed acts, etc.
What is unconscious?
"are in the unconscious memories, emotions, feelings and memory,"
The psychic apparatus consists of two levels: conscious and unconscious. In the unconscious are memories, emotions, feelings and memory. It is the engine of the psychic apparatus. Until the creation of the concept of the unconscious by Freud, can not be given account of how and why the subject was psychological desire, love, pain, sadness or hatred, and where they came from these states, at times, so paradoxical. Now, we know from the unconscious.
What is the role of sexuality in psychoanalysis?
This is one of the most controversial and more rejection has led to support psychoanalytic theory. Formerly it was confused with genital sex. It was thought that children were not sexuality. It was believed that it was something that happened only a few years of life. Psychoanalysis is a prominent role of sexuality in our psychic development, since it starts from birth. We must understand that it is the concept of sexuality as they understand it in everyday life, but in a broader sense. It has to do with the way we relate to outside our continued pursuit of pleasure-unpleasure ...
Why help both hearing and being heard?
The very fact of power pronounce aloud the fantasies and improves a person. We must also know that the analyst heals more for what it is, that by his words. The patient does not need advice, but going to a consultation to discuss what happens, so that nobody will listen how far he had done and to give a different meaning to the events that happen.
A psychoanalytic therapy should last many years?
"The patient comes to talk about what happens and be able to give a different meaning to the events that happen"
can last many or few years. Thinking that the treatment time is set in advance is a myth and a resistance to psychoanalysis as it is an individual process. On the other hand, we must distinguish the time in which therapeutic results are obtained (to heal), which can range from nine months to a year, and time to psychoanalyze (to go deeply into their lives, their own biography ) to be longer or lifetime.
Psychoanalysis assumes that the early relationships and experiences influence the psyche. "The last mark in a final?
Our first determine what we are learning, accounting for our passage to the human society. But to think that the past is unchangeable and decisive for our future is going too far. The therapeutic value of psychoanalysis lies in that we can modify the thoughts and experiences that cause a disease process in person. The future can be changed if we change our unconscious desires on it.
A person over 30 years, how can he return to his past to solve today?
"This discipline restores the ability to interact with reality, adapt to it and make the necessary changes to live better"
The past can not return. This is another mistake to think that psychoanalysis is concerned with the past of people. When a patient comes to the consultation, we have a person who has had past, but it is only in the patient as it is now. The successive steps of our psychic development not cleared to make way for the next, but add up. In me there is a child of five, ten, a teenager ... but there is a woman of 50 years, because that is yet to occur. This therapy works on the future because it may change. However, we also change our past because, if we think differently, just to have a different view of our past experiences.
What can you expect a person who goes to a psychoanalytic therapy?
Freud said that psychoanalysis aims to return the person's ability to love and work. Restores the ability to interact with reality, adapt to it and make the necessary changes to live satisfactorily. The result that the patient expects of therapy depends upon your willingness and ability to work.
"Psychoanalysis is reserved for educated people?
The patient who wants to, of any social class or intellectual level, you can begin therapy.
Has it changed much psychoanalysis from Freud?
studied Freud and Jacques Lacan, and we can say that has not changed on key elements of treatment. Other schools are practicing another form of treatment, but perhaps that is a concern not to seem to psychoanalysis.
What are the ideas of Freud that have been overcome?
" psychoanalysis is applicable to companies, doctors or other areas of training to detect many problems and act on them"
is little more than a century and has not yet has come to study and assimilate the entire psychoanalytic thought. Unable to overcome something that has not yet arrived. It is a very young science, very rejected and that other disciplines have not yet incorporated. We can say that is yet to join the lives of most people.
What other great psychoanalysts emphasize?
Jacques Lacan was a student of Freudian psychoanalysis. Came to close his school because their own students left to read Freud. Our school, founded by Miguel Oscar Menassa, Freud and Lacan studied rigorously and is responsible for the transmission and dissemination of this discipline. Menassa picked up the idea that Freud showed in his work: the need to unite poetry and psychoanalysis.
"The cinema has been distorted to some extent, psychoanalysis?
A typical case is that of Woody Allen, who is a filmmaker, not a psychoanalyst. We may like as a filmmaker, but that does not mean it is a diffuser of psychoanalysis. Transmitted, like many others, an unrealistic idea of \u200b\u200bwhat a treatment. We all remember the jokes of the psychoanalyst who falls asleep in the session the patient or laughs at him. That's not is the daily work of a professional.
"Psychoanalysis is applied beyond the couch?
"In psychoanalysis, health is not the reconstruction of a previous state, but the creation of a new"
Of course, the couch is a tool, but for years of psychoanalysis is applied and is applicable to businesses, professionals, doctors or other areas of training, among others. Taking account of psychoanalytic theory on the psychological subject assistance and promotes the work of these professionals. It helps to detect many problems to address it on them and recognize their own emotions involved in labor relations every day.
adventure Is a definition of mental health?
Psychoanalysis is a discipline that deals with mental health, dealing with such common conditions as depression, anxiety, obsessive or sexual dysfunction, with treatment and healing, and not have to live with them. The most expensive is to live with suffering and one's diminished capacity to see. You have to zoom out ideas like that psychoanalytic treatment is too expensive or too long or to be talking about the past and the traumas. The disease is always the worst solution. From psychoanalysis, health is not the reconstruction of a previous state, but the creation of a new state, a new subject.
Freud, the father of psychoanalysis
Discuss
psychoanalysis is talking about Sigmund Freud. Born in 1856 in Freiburg (ancient city of the Austrian Empire that today belongs to the Czech Republic), Freud graduated in medicine. A trip to Paris was instrumental in his career. In 1886 he worked for several months under the direction of Jean Martin Charcot at the prestigious neurology department of the Paris Salpêtrière. Could see first hand the hysteria and treatments based on hypnosis and suggestion. On returning to Vienna Freud married and opened a private practice. Thanks to daily contact with patients, sat the foundations of psychoanalysis. In those early years as a physician, he published several books and articles that were received between disinterest and disgust, because they raised in their most groundbreaking ideas, like a child sexuality. In 1906, his small circle of Viennese followers expanded. In 1908, he held the first Psychoanalytic Congress, and the following year, gave several lectures in the U.S. that helped give fame.
Some of his books became best-sellers ", the media pursued him and many patients came to his office. Psychoanalysis began to spread throughout the world and in the following decades, met his heyday. Freud's great tragedy was that her professional success coincided with serious health problems, which did not prevent continued with great energy. In 1923, he was diagnosed with cancer of the jaw, which was subjected to many interventions. He died in exile in London in 1939.
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