Essays and clinical reflections from Dr. Hartman, a psychoanalyst in Washington, DC, on psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and the emotional lives of the people he has worked with.
Transference carries feelings from an old relationship into a new one. How it shows up in therapy, its types, and how it differs from countertransference.
Why couples keep having the same fight, what the pursue-withdraw cycle and the anxious-avoidant trap are, and what changes a pattern that keeps returning.
Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy share one approach at different frequencies. What each involves, and why more sessions can deepen the work.
Why people keep repeating the same painful patterns in relationships and work, what Freud called repetition compulsion, and how psychoanalytic therapy helps.
Two respected treatments aimed at two different targets. What each actually does in the room, which one fits which problem, and the questions worth asking a therapist before you book.
They are one treatment. How to match the method to your problem, check a therapist’s real training, and know when a joint session is the wrong first step.
A practical guide to depression, what the symptoms feel like, what causes them, which treatments have evidence behind them, and the small daily changes that make every other treatment work better.
A complete guide to anxiety and anxiety disorders, symptoms, types, diagnosis and treatment options, including where a psychoanalytic understanding of anxiety fits in.