someone asks : do you believe in psychoanalysis?
ha that is a big question. it would take a thousand words to make a beginning in properly answering that... but in short : the work i do with people one to one is partly inspired by psychoanalysis and i sometimes playfully refer to my-so-called-self as an amateur psychoanalyst because (i think) freud's narrative of the unconscious — and the id, ego and superego are hugely important discoveries for thinking about the psyche...
but what is psychoanalysis? the methods developed for practising it are so many and varied! and then there is the question of money and the professionalisation of what is in essence (even freud himself actually said this in his latter years) love.
ha ha yes. psychoanalysis is love. omg.
unfortunately freud was obsessed with the idea that psychoanalysis be seen as a science which of course it isn't and never can be. for me in the right hands psychoanalysis is a kind of narrative therapy, highly speculative and experimental, playful, creative... like love.