- Such conditions as anxiety, depression or phobias can weigh heavily on a person, but they can grow lighter if you can come alive to what’s going on in your mind and body. If you find yourself in distressing states of mind that you can’t overcome, getting to know yourself better can make a big difference.
- That might not seem like much of a solution. Someone labouring under mental distress naturally wishes for relief. But in knowing your own mind, the burdens of anxiety and depression can be given a voice, and they can become more tractable.
- Lifelong afflictions can, in time, be transformed into manageable worries, fears, or sadness that have an understandable cause. An experience that is altogether too much can lose its dominance, and take its place among other feelings, thoughts and bodily sensations. In this way, the inertia and immobility of chronic mental distress can give way to a certain psychological suppleness.
The Purpose of the Therapy
what is the therapy?
We all have thoughts, feelings and impulses of which we are unaware, or which we do not stop to think about.
The psychoanalytic therapies seek to cast light on them, helping to bring lasting, long-term flexibility and decisiveness to life and relationships.
These treatments are derived from psychoanalysis, which was founded by Sigmund Freud in the first half of the twentieth century. Freud saw his patients for four or five sessions per week. This type of work is still offered and is of great value, but is provided only by a psychoanalyst. If that's what you're looking for, you should consult the Institute of Psychoanalysis for details.
I offer the analytically-based therapies of:
- Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, which has a frequency of three sessions per week, and
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is conducted in one or two sessions per week.
MY PRACTICE IS IN BURNLEY
Peter Rigg
Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
Registered with the
British Psychoanalytic Council
Registration: 21334
British Psychotherapy Foundation
Professional Senior Member