- Kaiser (Out-of-Network)
One of the things that haunts us all about our all too human condition is how much pain we have to suffer in the ordinary conduct of our lives. Who do we turn to when we are in such despair that we don’t know where to turn? Who can we trust? The practitioners at the Free Association Clinic believe that all of us suffer from occasional feelings of fear, alienation, depression, confusion. Some of us suffer from these symptoms more than others, but we are all otherwise more or less the same human beings, with the same needs and aspirations. After a brief consultation we will connect you to someone you can talk to and who you can trust to help you with your deepest emotional and existential concerns. We are here to help you get to know yourself intimately, and to help you bring the passion that has been missing back into your life . . . or perhaps, for the very first time?
For more than thirty years Free Association Clinic has helped people like you get to the bottom of why their anxieties seem so intractable and relentless. We work with the full spectrum of distress and consternation that inspires many of you to seek psychotherapy. Our approach is existential, which is perhaps the most penetrating yet personal approach to psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
We also work with borderline and psychotic symptoms, seeking a way to help you to get on with your life and to determine why a life of love and wonder has been so elusive.
Free Association Clinic For Existential Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis is informed by psychoanalytic and exsistential philosophical perspectives on the human condition and how to address the suffering that we encounter in our lives.
In-person therapy is a radical act of presence, where we engage directly with one another without the buffer of technology. It is a space where the facades we construct, consciously or unconsciously, are brought into the light through the immediacy of our encounter. In this shared space, we confront the ambiguities and contradictions that define our existence. The therapeutic encounter becomes a mutual exploration—one that reveals the complex dance between our desires, fears, and the roles we play. It is only through this unmediated, embodied interaction that we can begin to untangle the knots of our lived experience and recognize the ways in which we are entangled with the worlds of others.
In this brilliant and revolutionary collection of fourteen major essays that draw from more than twenty-five years of painstaking research, M. Guy Thompson regales us with a stunning revisioning of conventional psychoanalysis that deepens our understanding of the human condition.
Integrating the most seminal existentialist philosophers, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre, with the most forward-thinking psychoanalysts over the past century, including Freud, Laing, Bion, Winnicott, and Lacan, Thompson offers a profound yet deeply personal vision of what psychoanalysis can be in the twenty-first century. In this fascinating volume, Thompson explores such concepts as experience, authenticity, will, happiness, and agency by utilizing a wide range of thinkers, including the ancient Greeks, but always in his singular voice. Exquisitely lucid and engaging to read, Thompson deftly lures us into thoughtful and enlightening territory typically inaccessible to the general reader.
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- Kaiser (Out-of-Network)