Tara Institute
Suite 11, 228 Clarendon Street
East Melbourne VIC 3002
Your space for thought & reflection ...
"We may find ourselves feeling stuck, out of control or trapped in our circumstances and relationships.
Psychoanalysis does not solve external problems but it can help you achieve greater awareness about yourself, and how you relate to others.
With awareness and understanding comes choice and the ability to exercise it."
Malika Verma
Services
Consultation
One off appointments to explore the utility of the psychoanalytic method for you.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
For individuals, couples and families
Supervision
Individual and group supervision for psychotherapists
A short animation on Psychoanalysis from the Institute of Psychoanalysis, UK
What is Psychotherapy?
To put it simply, psychotherapy is the treatment of psychological problems through talking about one's thoughts and emotions with a therapist, it can otherwise be called ‘talking therapy’.
Psychotherapists follow different scientific traditions to inform their practice of which psychoanalytic psychotherapy is one.
Talking therapies can be done individually, on a one to one basis or in groups. There is mounting scientific evidence to support the use of talking therapies in most mental health problems.
Psychoanalysis, the oldest of all psychotherapies, was founded by Sigmund Freud in the last decades of the 19th century.
Psychoanalytic therapies differ from most other therapies in the importance it holds for the role of unconscious mental functions and its impact on our daily lives and relationships.
Psychoanalytic or psychodynamic psychotherapy is derived from psychoanalysis with the same core focus on the unconscious. This therapy offers to help people with complex emotional and relationship problems through the development of a trusting and confidential relationship with the therapist.
Other therapies like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) treat mental health problems through our conscious thoughts, beliefs and emotions. The diagnosis and formulation of the mental health problem determines the type of psychotherapy recommended.