Amanda Lenox Psychotherapy

Induced feelings are often acquired when in proximity to another person who cannot contain or manage their own feeling states. Absorbing the feeling states of others can be disorienting and confusing. It often compromises knowing ones self fully (or) having a sense of where one person ends and the other begins. Distinguishing and mastering this is an integral crux of modern psychoanalysis (MA). It is often the case that an individual has no reason to believe that their fee...ling states have been induced by others. This can bring on a multitude of issues for a person. Susceptibility to enactments, transferences, and resistances make a person vulnerable in lieu of induced feelings. In MA, we look for indicators that a person is overridden with the feelings of others and attempt to tease out what are induced feelings versus truly one’s own. From these conversations, a person can get back in touch with their own selves and learn to protect themselves from the infiltration of others. Happy talking.

You never know what is realllly going on with someone unless you conduct a thorough psychoanalysis on them. Go easy on your neighbor, especially right now. The entire world is traumatized and you never know what is behind the presented persona.

Dr. Wally Fletcher is the current president of the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. This quote was taken from a recent class. If a person wants to grow and develop in a meaningful way, talking about one’s desires is essential.

Often, the patient is not aware that a resistance is in operation. The analyst serves the patient by seeing and feeling it. After understanding it, the analyst helps the patient resolve it. Simple as that .

From a course lecture when we were reading and discussing Peter Gay’s biography of Freud.

People tell you everything you need to know if you ask and wait patiently.

Dr. Ellis always said: Every good analyst thinks below the belt.

As an analyst, one of the most important elements to a successful treatment is managing the analytic frame. It is one of the hardest but most important of jobs for the analyst. In modern psychoanalysis, we make decisions about handling the frame on a case by case basis... in real time. We determine which aspects of the frame are to be held firmly and which we are to be flexible about. Like a game of chess, we have to think through all possible outcome scenarios of our decisio...ns and make game time determinations within seconds based on history and goals. We know that keeping the frame is a goal but, of course, a bow to tightly strung can easily break. Most of my clients know me as a heavy hitter with managing the frame because I have known it to be a curative component of psychoanalysis. My frame decisions have come with training, experience, and conviction. However, Covid-19 gave us a new kind of training through experience. Analysts had to adapt to a new frame... the frame of covid. We have had to become oriented to a new way of conducting analysis. I maintained my own frame by building out an in-home analytic room to treat clients in. Yet, I had to be flexible in allowing my animals access to the space. I have had to be flexible in many other areas I never would have thought before but I look forward to the gains this offers me to do the job better and better in 2021. To grabbing the bull by the horns, having flexibility and foresight...to silver linings and the glass half full. Keep calm and talk on! Let’s go!!!!!!

The best free associations usually start in silence.