Perhaps we should better ask ourselves: Why not?

Against psychoanalysis as a therapeutic practice, objections are usually raised such as the indeterminate and usually long duration of the treatment, the cost considered excessive in relation to the duration, and mainly that the investigation of the past is privileged instead of focusing on the present of the patients. symptom.

Perhaps you have raised these objections yourself whenever you considered or were suggested to begin a process of analysis.

However, in favor of a psychoanalytic approach and against these objections, it could be said in principle that the cost should be evaluated not only as a monetary cost, but also in terms of the cost of suffering that hinders the opportunities to enjoy a full life that everything / that's how we deserve.

As for the duration , if it is indeterminate it is precisely because we psychoanalysts know that each analysand is unique and its singularity cannot be reduced to a set of typical cases, and because the meaning of its symptoms has to do with a genesis, with a long a process that cannot be retraced in a planned number of sessions. On the other hand, indeterminate does not necessarily mean long.  

Finally, and to dispose of the well-known prejudice that psychoanalysis is a therapy of the past, it should be noted that the psychoanalyst operates with the hypothesis of the unconscious , a psychic instance that, unlike consciousness, is timeless . An "old wound" or "a dysfunctional link pattern" manifests itself with an actuality that has a double meaning: it is actual inasmuch as the memory necessarily occurs in a present time. The way we remember an event is never the same and always depends on our current circumstances. In another sense, the actuality of the memory refers to what is put into action in the transference with the analyst.

The psychoanalytic approach tends to search, unravel and deactivate the root of the problem.

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The integrative perspective is based on a solid theoretical framework but without dogmatism , open to new paradigms, discoveries, and psychotherapeutic practices of proven effectiveness. Enables the construction of tools to be able to analyze and understand everyday situations with greater clarity, solving everyday moments effectively, improving ties with the environment and others, planning objectives and goals in the short and medium term.

From an active, open and dynamic listening, it refers our practice to a specific culture , social, historical, political and economic context , it keeps us aware that we are subjects not only of the unconscious but also of the institutions understood as those forms or social structures adopted as norms or customs that pre-exist on us and in a certain sense are imposed on us.

It is the institutions that somehow determine what may be a symptom in a given society at a given time, and what may not be in another.

When a patient in the session talks to us about their partner or other significant ties, they also talk about how institutions such as the family, parenting, femininity, masculinity participate in the construction of their reality. Issues that, beyond their unconscious determinations, signify their position in a linking network that houses their symptoms and that refer us to their socialization process, to their belonging and reference groups, to a way of conceiving and constructing reality. .