About Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Psychoanalysis is the original form of talk therapy–an approach to understanding personalities, symptoms, suffering, failure to thrive, and other human experiences through a conversation that unfolds in the context of a therapeutic relationship.  Over time, with your therapist, the conflicts, motives and impulses which disrupt happiness in daily life are understood and resolved, opening the possibility for new experiences.  Though many specialized forms of talk therapy have developed in the last century, Psychoanalysis is as modern as ever; as a therapeutic approach, it has continued to evolve while retaining depth necessary to facilitate lasting transformations and the emergence of an authentic self.

Psychoanalytic training is rigorous in preparing clinicians to work with difficult and painful feelings and the most complex conflicts and personalities.  Whether you choose to undergo a traditional Psychoanalysis, or another form of talk therapy, you are in good hands with Back Bay Analytic Group’s affiliate therapists, who have undergone extensive training in applied psychodynamics, Psychoanalytic theory and technique, and who have worked under supervision with some of the most accomplished and experienced clinicians in the field.