What are words worth?
Psychoanalysis is about speech – the particular way one voices concerns in matters of love, the phrases one uses to describe relations among family members: 'She was the apple of her mother's eye; 'He was the baby of the family'.
Psychoanalysis is about timing – the moment when our own words return to us with renewed emphasis or meaning.
Psychoanalysis is about knowledge – that which is known to us but elusive, sometimes revealing itself in the partial tellings of dreams, or in our reactions to an unexpected encounter.
I am a psychoanalyst working in north west London and a member of The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, The College of Psychoanalysts UK and a registrant of the UK Council for Psychotherapy.
If you are considering psychoanalysis as a process you can use – one which invites your own words to explore the influence of narratives on past, present and future – then perhaps there is a question you'd like me to address.
See www.cfar.org.uk, www.psychotherapy.org.uk, www.psychoanalysis-cpuk.org, www.londonsociety-nls.org.uk, to learn more about my member organisations and the orientation of my training and practice.
Loretta Monaco
psychoanalytic practitioner
psychoanalytic practitioner
