Psychoanalysis | Chicago, IL

Psychoanalysis examines the unconscious formations that shape our everyday life, most significantly in our experiences of psychopathology and symptoms. People who pursue this approach are often searching for greater understanding and alleviation of distress, relationship difficulties, or internal conflict. Christopher McCann, Ph.D., provides online psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy to patients living in Chicago, Illinois, offering a telehealth setting where individuals can engage in sustained analytic work.

What Is Psychoanalysis?

Psychoanalysis investigates how experiences across the lifespan, beginning from early childhood, form us as people, remain with us in our present lives, and even shape our futures in the encounter of the clinical session.

Diagnoses often worked with:

• Anxiety disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Affective disorders, including major depressive disorder
• Traumatic stress, acute or complex

This form of treatment appeals to individuals interested in sustained psychological inquiry rather than brief, solution-focused treatment.

Psychoanalytic Treatment Options

Christopher McCann, Ph.D., provides psychoanalytic individual modalities for residents of Chicago, designed to address different aims and levels of engagement:

• Psychoanalysis
• Psychoanalytic therapy

I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PA #PS018733) and candidate psychoanalyst in formation at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis. This clinical practice focuses on one’s innermost life, and does not fall into the pitfalls of advice or suggestion which only leads to impasse. Instead, psychoanalysis offers a place for self-questioning and insight-building. I approach this work individually; together we collaboratively decide if you wish for once weekly or more frequent sessions.

“Whether it wishes to be an agent of healing, training, or sounding the depths, psychoanalysis has but one medium: the patient’s speech” (Jacques Lacan).

Christopher McCann, Ph.D., provides online psychoanalysis and online psychotherapy for people living in Chicago, IL, via a convenient, secure telehealth platform, allowing you to access sessions from your daily life. Contact me to learn more or schedule an initial call with Dr. McCann.