My Services



My Services



PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

The key to a sense of well-being and fulfillment in life is self understanding, a reflected life. Such self understanding is achieved through the process of exploration in the therapeutic relationship. With my attuned engagement and guidance, we examine experiences present and past, explore dreams, and process the therapeutic relationship, in order to understand what the patient's hopes and dreads are, what is needed from the therapeutic relationship to be able to realize what the goals are and and what has been getting in the way, and gain an understanding of what you need from the therapeutic experience in order to develop your talents, realize your ambitions and your ideals in your work life and establish meaningful and fulfilling relationships with others.


DREAM ANALYSIS

One of the "royal roads" to self understanding is dream analysis. From the exploration of our dreams we gain the deepest insights into ourselves and are therefore in the position to reach the most profound understanding of how we are in the world, what we are struggling with, what we yearn for, and what we need in order to find personal meaning in our lives.


CONSULTING

In my consulting practice we address specific life challenges: family, intimate relationship, career, professional advancement friendship, parenting - that you currently are facing and are seeking to gain clarity on or a new perspective. I will share with you my perspective and offer my counsel and my advice.


SUPERVISION

In addition to my therapy and consulting practice, I also have an extensive supervision practice in dynamic, relational psychotherapy and psychoanalysis from the perspective of Intersubjective Self Psychology. ( see book page ). In individual supervision as well as in small supervision groups for both beginning and seasoned therapists and analysts, you have a chance to discuss your work and receive guidance in order to master psychodynamic theory and practice and help you become an effective confident therapist. Under my guidance and support many a therapist has worked through therapeutic impasses with his or her patient and has developed the competence and confidence to be an effective and successful therapist.


TEACHING

For over 25 years I have also been a teacher at several psychoanalytic training institutes. In 1987, together with a few colleagues, we started our own training program, The Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology, TRISP in New York, devoted to the innovative theories of self psychology and intersubjectivity, ideas that have fundamentally changed psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic practice. Starting in 2015 I have also provided semester long online seminars and zoom lectures on the topic of self psychology and Intersubjective self psychology to therapists in China in simultaneous translation.



Frequency of Sessions



Self understanding can be sought on an ongoing basis, accompanying our lives, in weekly or by-weekly sessions. It can be pursued in intensive analysis on a several times a week basis, resulting in continuous work over months or years. It can also be pursued situation-specific, when certain issues or life challenges present themselves, resulting in therapeutic explorations lasting a few weeks or months, to be resumed, perhaps at a later point in time, when new issues have arisen.



A REFLECTED LIFE



While medication has certainly helped many people cope with pain and emotional suffering, the one thing it cannot do is bring about self understanding - although for some people it may be a prerequisite for that. Such self understanding is the hallmark of an aware person.

In the same way you are interested in knowing the world - politics, the arts and sciences, literature, culture and commerce - so too are you interested in understanding yourself and it is this self understanding that is the basis for understanding other people and your relationships with them. This is what makes you a competent and compassionate person, partner, parent, friend, teacher, business associate, and leader in your field.

Talk therapy - psychotherapy and psychoanalysis - is the most comprehensive and the most respectful way of gaining self understanding, respectful of your unique individuality, because first and foremost the therapist is there to listen and to understand.

Through the therapeutic process you come to understand yourself and the often unconscious motives of your actions. You come to recognize that you make sense of yourself and your relationship with others based on the unique and personal frame of reference into which you organize your experiences - a frame of reference that is the result of the sum total of your prior experiences. Based on it, you attribute personal meaning to all subsequent experiences with the world and others - meaning that may or may not belong to the events or to your relationships with others.

Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis are the treatment approaches perfectly suited to come recognize, understand and transform your personal frame of reference so as to come to a place where you can do more justice to the world as it is and to your relationships for what they are. This makes you more competent in negotiating your life. It is such a reflected life that frees you from ineffectual repetitive patterns and strengthens your effective modes of relating to yourself, to others and to the world, thus putting you into a position to pursue what matters to you, what you care about and what you long for...



"Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer "


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Psychotherapy and Consulting Practice of Dr. Peter B. Zimmermann, PhD