Self-Exploration with Psychoanalysis
Guided Self-Exploration for Deeper Self-Understanding
Phenomenological Psychoanalysis is a way of looking for the rest of you. Through free association and psychoanalytic inquiry, we search for essence that has passed unnoticed or has never been followed through. As we bring them to awareness, apparently minor details turn out to belong together. The portrait of who you are takes on depth, its contours sharpen, and finer details come into view.
POINTS OF ENTRY
What May Bring You Here
A Person Is an Inexhaustible Subject
SELF-KNOWLEDGE AS VIRTUE
Find Out Who You Have Become
YOUR INDIVIDUALITY IN QUESTION
Find Out What You Are Changing
SELF-KNOWLEDGE IN THE SERVICE OF CHANGE
THE PRACTICE OF GUIDED SELF-EXPLORATION
What Is Phenomenological Psychoanalysis?
In phenomenological psychoanalysis, we examine the different aspects and layers of who you are, deepening your self-knowledge. We explore your experience: memories, feelings, thoughts, associations, wishes, reactions, relationships, values, and habits. You supply the essence; I bring the conceptual knowledge that guides our inquiry and helps us recognize how its elements belong together. We paint a portrait of your life, connecting main events, forgotten and overlooked matters, together with details that seemed faint, fragmentary, or contradictory, forming an increasingly coherent self-understanding. An account of what has shaped you, who you are, and why.
HOW IT DIFFERS
What we are not doing
Related services answer to other needs.
Unlike in therapy, we do not treat mental-health issues, mitigate troublesome behaviors, or mend relationships..
Unlike in coaching, we do not focus on optimization, productivity, or performance.
Unlike in education, we do not transmit general psychological knowledge or teach universal skills.
Unlike in personality assessment, we do not measure or rate your traits or place you in a category.
Inquiry in Practice
How We Work Together
Regular, confidential one-to-one video meetings devoted entirely to the subject of you. We follow whatever comes to mind and notice what returns: your feelings, thoughts, memories, and reactions, connecting them into patterns of meaning.
Small-group conversations organized around a shared subject. Each of us examines our experience from our own perspective and discovers the different forms they take in others. The contrasts open routes that may never appear in solitude
Psychological knowledge with introspective practice. We focus on one subject, such as emotion, memory, identity, personality, the unconscious, and similar. We include opportunities to apply the methods to your own experience
Your Accomplice in Knowing Yourself
Malka Ceh, PhD
I am a psychoanalyst with a PhD in evolutionary anthropology. I use psychoanalysis outside the clinical framework for making you more fully known to yourself. We do this by bringing more of your experience into awareness and connecting elements that may initially seem fragmentary, contradictory, or unrelated into a coherent understanding of who you are and how you came to be.