Psychoanalysis in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C
Psychoanalysis | Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C
Psychoanalysis is a deeply therapeutic and existential process of self-inquiry. It offers a profound way to examine fundamental aspects of your inner life: psychological symptoms, emotional conflicts, traumatic experiences, disruptions in your life history, and the choices that have shaped it—so that a different future becomes possible. Christopher McCann, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist and candidate psychoanalyst, provides online psychoanalytic therapy and psychoanalysis to individuals living in Chicago, Illinois, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.
How Psychoanalysis Works
Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy do not offer pre-fabricated interventions. They do not reduce the specificity of your suffering to a cognitive distortion that needs correcting or a behavior that needs modifying, and they do not coax you into becoming an idealized version of a normative person.
Diagnoses often worked with:
- Anxiety in the full range of presentations
- Mood and affective disturbances, episodic and long-lasting
- Traumatic experience and its aftermath
- Phase of life issues and life transitions
- Severe and persistent forms of mental illness
This work suits people looking for transformative inner work they can commit to, work that can build upon earlier efforts at personal change.
Psychoanalytic Approaches
I offer various forms of psychoanalytic practice:
- Psychoanalysis – Lacanian psychoanalysis holds that our innermost being, the unconscious, is woven and textured through language and symbolic meaning. Sessions are conducted multiple times per week, and focus on the speech of the patient as the substance of the treatment. It is by virtue of what is spoken during an analytic session that therapeutic value is created.
- Psychoanalytic therapy – Psychoanalytic therapy is grounded in the theory and techniques of psychoanalysis, but adapted to a once a week format. This makes the work more accessible, and can be a foundation for those looking to increase session frequency as momentum and motivation build.
The appropriate method for you depends on your capacity for the work, your desire for it, and the level of analysis you want.
Areas Served
Christopher McCann, Ph.D., works with individuals living in the following areas through secure online therapy sessions:
Through online telehealth services, you can begin this treatment from the midst of your daily life. What makes your therapeutic endeavor possible is not the room you are in when you do it; rather, it is the heart-mind connection forged with the clinician you choose to trust.
Life is passing swiftly by.
Christopher McCann, Ph.D. (PA #PS018733), provides psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy to individuals living in Chicago, IL, Philadelphia, PA, and Washington, D.C. If you’re interested in starting, the first step can be the most difficult. Contact me to schedule an appointment.