· Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis ·
· Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis ·
"... it is essential to mental efficiency to be able to 'dream' a current emotional experience, whether it is taking place while the person is awake, or while asleep."Wilfred Bion, Cogitations, 1992, p. 216
"Psychology proper is only about those things that one cannot talk about."Wolfgang Giegerich, The Soul's Logical Life, 1998, p. 32
"Only because psychologically, logically the goal has already been reached, can there also be an empirical longing after the goal has been reached."Wolfgang Giegerich, Neurosis: The Logic of a Metaphysical Illness, 2013, p. 189
"Psychology has the job of studying not people or societies, but the soul, that is, the different logical forms that people or societies are defined by and within which they inevitably live."Wolfgang Giegerich, The Historical Emergence of the I, 2020, p. 145
"For a psycho-analysis is not an impartial investigation, but a therapeutic measure. Its essence is not to prove anything, but merely alter something"Sigmund Freud, Collected Works, Volume X, 1909, p. 104
"Thus nature is here called sublime merely because it raises the imagination to the point of presenting those cases in which the mind can make palpable to itself the sublimity of its own vocation over nature."Immanuel Kant, Third Critique, 1790, 5:262
"The Analyst can never be sure that in making the patient throw away a wrong form, he is not going to throw away the contained value."Carl Jung, Seminar on Analytical Psychology, 1925, p. 10
"A dream never says what one ought to do."Carl Jung, Seminar on Dream Analysis, 1928–1930, p. 208
"... Dasein, in so far as it is, has always submitted itself already to a "world" which it encounters, and this submission belongs essentially to its Being."Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, 1927, pp. 120–121
"Psychological adjustment is not liberation. The path of spiritual growth cuts off at an angle to that of psychological growth, and to confuse the two may be to get stuck unawares, or with a sense of disillusionment."Nina Coltart, The Practice of Psychoanalysis and Buddhism, 1985
A medical, drug-oriented model of human psychology is fundamentally flawed. "Solving" a problem without insight and understanding is, psychologically, not really a solution. Medication may serve to stabilise situations, allowing real psychological work to be undertaken but it does not in itself constitute a psychological intervention.
Often what we term "mental illness" is an attempt to adapt to a situation or event which is connected to complex facets of our history, character and environment. I therefore aim to look at anxiety and depression as often failed and outdated solutions which need to be unpacked and examined rather than blocked, avoided or medicated away.
Anxiety and depression are all too common, justifiable responses to some of the difficulties of modern life and it is usually worthwhile to investigate them so that they do not become habits from which it is hard to escape. This is particularly important in relationships where habits and patterns of behaviour often determine the tone and course of the relationship.
I am happy to provide open advice to anyone investigating psychotherapy or psychoanalysis as many people have questions about the process, structure or contents of such work before they decide to take part in it.
A graduate and past Vice-President of the C.G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht, I hold practice licenses for Canton Zürich and Canton Schaffhausen and am registered to work through Swiss Supplemental Health Insurance. I have practices in both central Zürich and Schaffhausen.
There are two options for insurance coverage of Psychotherapy. Basic insurance (Grundversicherung) and Supplemental insurance (Zusatzversicherung). I work only under the Supplemental system due to the disadvantages of the former.
The most obvious and really only benefit of the Basic insurance system is cost. The disadvantages are:
Address · Sonneggsteig 7, 8006 Zürich
Email · kime@pkime.ch
Tel · 044 797 6848
By telephone, please leave a message and I will usually reply the same day.
Take tram 7 to stop "Sonneggstrasse" (two stops North of Central). Go left across the bottom of the road and you will see steps going up to the right, near to a small, modern bronze drinking fountain. Go up the steps almost to the top. To the left side, there is an iron gate. The door to the practice is red with iron decorations and the bell is on the left of the door.
If coming by car, there are "blue zone" parking spaces and also 2 hour meters all along Turnerstrasse and the surrounding area at the top of the steps.
Nina Coltart and the border of Bethlehem — Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol 61, November 2016
Image as Picture, Image as Debris — In "Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority", Eds. J. Sandoval and J. Knapp, Routledge, 2017
Psychological Empiricism and Naturalism — In "Research in Analytical Psychology", Ed. C. Roesler, Routledge, 2018
Synchronicity and Meaning — Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol 65, November 2019
Consciousness, Reflexivity and Evolution — in "Essays on 'The Soul's Logical Life' in the Work of Wolfgang Giegerich", Ed Sandoval, El-Bejjani and Power, Routledge, 2023
Consciousness, Entropy and the Edge of the Psychological — in "Where is Soul?", Ed Mogenson and Power, Dusk Owl Books, 2025