Individual Psychology

Tolerating silence in psychotherapy enables the analyst to stay present and support the patient’s unprocessed experiences.

A psychoanalytic reflection on obstacles to listening in the clinical room, exploring presence, ambiguity, and ethical listening through Bion, Lacan, and André Green.

The question of when the inner world of a human being begins is not one that can be answered solely by pointing to the moment of birth.

A past that overwhelmed the child, a past carrying emotions far beyond their capacity—one lived at a moment when no regulating other was present to name it, soothe it, or give it meaning—never enters narrative memory. It neither disappears nor becomes truly remembered; instead, it remains half-alive in the hidden layers of the psyche.

Holding silence or shutting down? Sometimes the mind grows tired—not of sound, but of perception itself.

In Praise of Metaphor Sometimes an image can do what hundreds of words cannot. In the heart of therapeutic conversations, metaphors often appear like golden

Existential thirst begins from the very first moments of life, when human beings enter the world with needs that go far beyond food and shelter.

In recent decades, psychoanalysis has undergone a fundamental transformation, shifting from an intrapsychic and individual-centered model to a relational and social framework. This shift, known

This article explores the complex relationship between empathy and the unconscious in psychoanalysis, as presented by Stefano Bolognini in his seminal work Empathy and the

Repetition Compulsion is one of the fundamental concepts in psychoanalysis, first introduced by Sigmund Freud and later expanded upon in contemporary theories such as Object