Dr. Michael Holohan, Psychoanalyst in Munich

25/05/2019

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DREAMS, WORDS, DESIRE

"Freud describes a dream as a certain knot, an associative network of analysed verbal forms that intersect as such, not because of what they signify, but thanks to a sort of homonymy. It is when you come across a single word at the intersection of three of the ideas that come to the subject that you notice that the important thing is that word and not something else.

It is when you have found the word that concentrates around it the greatest number of threads in the mycellium that you know it is the hidden centre of gravity of the desire in question. That, in a word, is the point I was talking about just now, the nodal point where discourse forms a hole"

Jacques Lacan, My Teaching, p. 28

[image: mycellium]

25/05/2019

It takes time to get to the root of emotional problems.

07/05/2019

People with borderline personality disorder are often treated as if they have a personality flaw, rather than mental health issues stemming from trauma. It's time we changed its name.

15/05/2018

07/11/2017

For all the suspicion and humour around it, psychoanalysis offers some serious benefits

31/10/2017

It’s worse to say nothing than to say the wrong thing. Here are five ways to respond helpfully to people who have suffered an enormous loss.

03/09/2017

Francis says he visited psychoanalyst for six months ‘to clarify a few things’ and that now nothing frightens him

07/07/2017

There is no one path that a griever should walk. There is not even a right path. There is only your path. As a griever, you are already walking a path t...

27/06/2017

08/06/2017

Give me the Freudian tradition any day

29/05/2017

26/02/2017

The psychoanalytic method involves talking and saying whatever comes to mind. For many people, this can seem strange. How is this supposed to help me? In this video, psychoanalyst Astrid Gessert gives a very nice short explanation of how the "talking cure" works.

Psychoanalyst Astrid Gessert gives an example of the technique of free association. If you love Freud as much as we do, please consider making a donation to ...

06/02/2017

This past week has been brutal, in terms of what has been coming across my newsfeed. And 2016 wasn't exactly a picnic either. So lately I've been thinking a lot about the mental health impact of a steady avalanche of Really Bad News. Many of us (myself included) deal with mental health challenges on...

25/01/2017

Darian Leader: A study calculating the cost of widespread stress and exhaustion ignores the signs pointing to what really lies behind it

06/12/2016

For those of you who also speak German, this looks to be an interesting talk on the radio next Wednesday (and live streamed and archived online).
"Psychoanalysis as Cultural Critique"

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25/11/2016

Psychoanalysis has been widely criticised and largely obscured from the mainstream treatment of mental illness. Why do these three psychoanalysists believe that their practice still plays an important role in healing diseases of the mind? Lynne Malcom reports.

21/11/2016

The longer version of the article on burnout that I posted last week from psychoanalyst Josh Cohen.

Is burnout simply the result of working too hard? Josh Cohen argues that the root of the problem lies deeper than that

19/11/2016

15/11/2016

A psychoanalyst explains why for people feeling “burnt out”, simply trying to relax doesn’t always work

06/11/2016

... and more meaningful.

17/10/2016

"We can get very attached to a single picture of ourselves. The most difficult thing to accept for many of us is that there is continual change built in. There is a wish to fix a kind of CV about oneself which is a set of formulas: the kind of person I think I am. It is useful in the way that a really bad map is useful. [...] But I also think that the idea of self-knowledge is hugely overrated. In our society it is as though it has been generally agreed that what we need is always more self-knowledge. Often it is just an anxiety state, another protection racket."

The psychoanalyst and writer on an exhibition he’s created about ‘the vulgar’, and when taste becomes narrow-mindedness

10/10/2016

Sobriety doesn't guarantee a good life. By focusing on the whole person—not just the drug or drug use—psychoanalysis can help addicts grow in ways that go beyond recovery.

03/10/2016

Upcoming events, conferences and courses on psychoanalysis, art, history and culture.

30/09/2016

You can now find me on Angloinfo.com, an English-language ex-pat website.

American-born psychoanalyst and psychological counsellor offering confidential individual psychoanalysis and psychological counselling working in English with people from all nationalities, backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations and age groups. Consultation by appointment. Based in Schwabing.

30/09/2016

You can now find me on Angloinfo.com

28/09/2016

The long read: Cheap and effective, CBT became the dominant form of therapy, consigning Freud to psychology’s dingy basement. But new studies have cast doubt on its supremacy – and shown dramatic results for psychoanalysis. Is it time to get back on the couch?

27/09/2016

Nicholas Lezard on a psychoanalytic meditation on the need to escape life's existential failures

27/09/2016

24/08/2016