Key points

Psychoanalysis begins where the ordinary world leaves us and offers a unique space for truth.

At the heart of psychoanalytic therapy is the mystery that underlies so much of ordinary experience.

A therapist and patient begin as strangers but a delicate bond forms over time.

Every person's journey is different, but there are some essential parts that give it shape. Each of us, I believe, experiences forms of suffering so heavy that they distort the shape of our lives, carving paths of secrecy and dread. There is trauma that splits your story in two—the lost world before, and the haunted after. Sometimes what hurts most is the isolation—the conviction that no one else shares your pain, and there’s no one to bear it with you, let alone witness and understand it.

If you’re fo

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