John Silver, PhD

Do you want to deal with the causes of psychological issues or the effects? Treatments like CBT work on the effects and symptoms. In-depth psychotherapy like Modern Psychoanalysis deals with causes and Existential Analysis helps you to find meaning and purpose in your life. The unconscious part of our psyche is where the root causes of symptoms lie. It is the part of our mind where we put thoughts and feelings that may be difficult, conflicting, painful and unwanted. It is dynamic, always producing energy that our defense mechanisms need to process. They don’t go away, they are down there bubbling up and affecting our behavior, thoughts and moods. We use your curiosity and intelligence to explore your unconscious. We take a journey together into your unconscious to seek out the root causes of your issues that may cause repetitive patterns and behaviors that are not working for you. We’ll find them together and take your counterproductive thoughts and feelings and transform them into productive ones that can create a life that is more meaningful, purposeful and fulfilling. It takes courage to look in the corners of our mind since that’s where we stored things that we don’t want to think about. We explore it together and through our collaboration we use the energy from those unwanted thoughts and transform more constructive ways to energize the more positive elements of our being. It takes and uses psychic energy to repress thoughts and feelings. We can free up the energy from those defense mechanisms and use this energy constructively to build a better intrapsychic and interpersonal life. We find what you’re good at and love to do or think about that was not allowed to flourish and develop that in order to live a good life, whatever that may mean to you. And that’s the secret of in-depth analysis of who we are rather than just treating the symptoms that are the result of not letting us be who we are. --