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Reading, Vermont 05062
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Most of the mental suffering we endure (if it does not arise from present grief and loss) arises either from our fervent attempts to resolve emotional conflicts we cannot fully grasp, or because we never learned to endure and adapt our unruly interior lives to the world around us. Usually both. I work with individuals to make them feel better, by attending to what they do in the moment, as a way of understanding how they have come to be themselves -- and how who they are is at odds with what they want to be and feel. I come to clinical practice with a rigorous and critical understanding of the theory and technique of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, but in my practice I consider it my job to learn the language of the patient's experience, and to speak it with them. I discuss this in my book, Freud's Requiem (Riverhead/Penguin) As a writer, interested in the marvels both of mind and world, I prize precise, experience-near communication, both in literature and psychotherapy. I believe empathic, intuitive understanding and clinical observation are complementary, and are the best avenues by which to approach the unique complexity of the inner world. www.freudsrequiem.com

My Specialties
Academic Underachievement
Anger Management
Behavioral Issues
Borderline Personality
Chronic Impulsivity
Depression
Emotional Disturbance
Mood Disorders