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Psychoanalytic Therapy: Not What You May Think! With Dr. Amanda Akers!

Psychoanalytic Therapy: Not What You May Think! With Dr. Amanda Akers!

Update: 2025-12-02
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Dr. Amanda Akers, one of our awesome Best Life clinicians, has a free flowing and often funny discussion with me about the ins and outs of psychoanalytic therapy. We cover myths vs reality, why both of us take a deeper perspective than CBT, our own thoughts about the impact of childhood in adulthood, and I ask her the most common questions I get from clients about this approach, like... how long does it take? Why does childhood matter in adulthood? And why does the therapist client relationship matter so much? Also covered: the idea of a "couple's world," and how therapy cannot create one but only return you to one if it existed! Book with Dr. Akers here:

https://www.bestlifebehavioralhealth.com/dr-amanda-akers

Books we discuss:

How To Love Your Daughter: https://amzn.to/3JpMBBc

Psychoanalytic Therapy by Nancy McWilliams: https://amzn.to/47BgHK2

Love's Executioner by Irvin Yalom: https://amzn.to/4hCVnsd


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Psychoanalytic Therapy: Not What You May Think! With Dr. Amanda Akers!

Psychoanalytic Therapy: Not What You May Think! With Dr. Amanda Akers!

Dr. Samantha Rodman Whiten