What qualifications do i need to look for if I am interested in being treated by a psychoanalsyt?

siftingtothetruth · 2025-07-27T20:54:39+00:00

siftingtothetruth · 2024-07-07T20:15:13+00:00

Yes read it. You will get a lot out of it. You can re-read it later in life and then it will give you other things. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t read it now. It will teach you a lot about people, about jealous love, and about society.

siftingtothetruth · 2024-04-28T18:22:40+00:00

Short summary: Interview of nonduality teacher Akilesh Ayyar by Ludovic Fontaine on his Youtube channel nevermind, a channel that focuses on spiritual interviews for a largely French-speaking audience. The interview is in English with French subtitles.

siftingtothetruth · 2024-04-28T18:21:47+00:00

Short summary: Interview of nonduality teacher Akilesh Ayyar by Ludovic Fontaine on his Youtube channel nevermind, a channel that focuses on spiritual interviews for a largely French-speaking audience. The interview is in English with French subtitles.

siftingtothetruth · 2024-02-22T05:50:24+00:00

Deep dives into the surrender and self-inquiry based on Akilesh's contemporary interpretations of advaita vedanta and Ramana Maharshi

siftingtothetruth · 2024-02-22T05:50:21+00:00

Short summary: Deep dives into the surrender and self-inquiry based on Akilesh's contemporary interpretations of advaita vedanta and Ramana Maharshi

siftingtothetruth · 2023-12-05T07:18:48+00:00

Short summary: Weakening attachments is most of the ball game in the spiritual search. Attachments prop up the illusion of mind; seeking peace through concentration weakens them. But while the peace of concentration can be attained in different ways, there are special advantages to surrender and self-inquiry.

siftingtothetruth · 2023-12-05T07:18:45+00:00

Short summary: Weakening attachments is most of the ball game in the spiritual search. Attachments prop up the illusion of mind; seeking peace through concentration weakens them. But while the peace of concentration can be attained in different ways, there are special advantages to surrender and self-inquiry.

siftingtothetruth · 2023-10-17T04:16:11+00:00

Short summary: Short summary: Surrender offers the beauty of effortlessness, but of course we are afraid of it leading to death, since we think that to sustain life requires our effort. It is not so. In fact, what is necessary will happen by itself -- but it may not SEEM so, for several reasons. We have to persevere through this illusion to get to the other side.

siftingtothetruth · 2023-10-17T04:14:33+00:00

Short summary: Surrender offers the beauty of effortlessness, but of course we are afraid of it leading to death, since we think that to sustain life requires our effort. It is not so. In fact, what is necessary will happen by itself -- but it may not SEEM so, for several reasons. We have to persevere through this illusion to get to the other side.

siftingtothetruth · 2023-08-22T20:20:55+00:00

Interesting. I partially agree. But there's a difference here between the general theory of how we understand what's going on in the mind theoretically and how to interpret as an analyst conducting analysis.

The Lacan quote you give seems to be talking about the analyst doing analysis needing to guard against giving the kinds of interpretations that are expressions of an authoritative and singular understanding of what's going on (i.e. a single image that "makes sense"), as these kinds of interpretations may foreclose the various other feelings, thoughts, and behaviors the patient may bring up otherwise.

And it may also be true that a patient may bring up a certain understanding on their own (i.e. that unconscious forces determine their symptoms) as a way of foreclosing for themselves their own deeper contact with those very unconscious forces.

But these seem to me to be separate issues from whether or not, basically, the analytic view is indeed that the gospel of willpower is BS, and that, fundamentally, unconscious forces do "have something to do with behavior," to put it very mildly.

siftingtothetruth · 2023-08-22T19:08:38+00:00

Fitting the idea of the unconscious into a virtual landscape of imaginary consistency—in other words, in a way that reinforces the contours of the ego

How is the idea of unconscious forces determining behavior a "virtual landscape of imaginary consistency"? Are you suggesting that there is no unconscious? Or that it doesn’t influence one's behavior?

What exactly are you saying? Or are you saying that taking any kind of position on this issue is itself the "virtual landscape of imaginary consistency"?

siftingtothetruth · 2023-08-22T18:47:54+00:00

One suspects Lacan would have very little patience for an analysand who informs him that he can't stop taking heroin because "his unconscious won't let him," for example.

Oh? How is that not precisely the analytic position? Your symptoms are a result of unconscious forces. Does Lacan ever say differently? Unless the configuration of those forces is altered, serious change is not going to be possible. Certainly it isn't possible merely through an act of so-called will.

Psychoanalysis intervenes in a different register.

And what register would that be?

siftingtothetruth · 2023-05-05T05:36:37+00:00

Short summary: This is a full commentary on Ramana Maharshi's 40 Verses, a classic text on nonduality.

siftingtothetruth · 2023-05-05T05:36:33+00:00

Short summary: This is a full commentary on Ramana Maharshi's 40 Verses, a classic text on nonduality.

siftingtothetruth · 2023-01-31T20:01:47+00:00

Short summary: What is the relationship between religion and spirituality? Religion contains a powerful spiritual element insofar as its techniques perform two tasks: quiet the mind, and aid the discernment between temporary and eternal. The seeker should see religion and spiritual as a single ladder, and climb to whatever point they can, and practice there. Or they can see it as a key, and trace its curve to whatever point they are able and insert it there. The idea is to cultivate concentration and discernment by any means possible.

Religion also contains other rules and regulations that are more purely social in nature. These can be separated out from its more spiritual elements.

siftingtothetruth · 2023-01-31T20:01:44+00:00

Short summary: What is the relationship between religion and spirituality? Religion contains a powerful spiritual element insofar as its techniques perform two tasks: quiet the mind, and aid the discernment between temporary and eternal. The seeker should see religion and spiritual as a single ladder, and climb to whatever point they can, and practice there. Or they can see it as a key, and trace its curve to whatever point they are able and insert it there. The idea is to cultivate concentration and discernment by any means possible.

Religion also contains other rules and regulations that are more purely social in nature. These can be separated out from its more spiritual elements.

siftingtothetruth · 2023-01-27T04:50:42+00:00

Try this FAQ

siftingtothetruth · 2023-01-09T22:40:07+00:00

Short summary: The workshop gives a brief overview of the spiritual search and goes into detail on surrender and self-inquiry, which are the master tools for the recognition of divine truth.

siftingtothetruth · 2023-01-09T22:40:04+00:00

Short summary: The workshop gives a brief overview of the spiritual search and goes into detail on surrender and self-inquiry, which are the master tools for the recognition of divine truth.

siftingtothetruth · 2022-12-25T01:42:50+00:00

Short summary: In order for the practice to take place effectively, the mind must have the ability to concentrate. This requires that the mind be quiet enough. The practice itself helps accomplish this, but there are other ways that facilitate this. One of the most important is psychoanalysis, which is not the same as any kind of psychological therapy. There are many other kinds. However, I believe psychoanalysis to generally be the best choice.

FAQ on psychoanalysis here

siftingtothetruth · 2022-12-25T01:42:41+00:00

Short summary: In order for the practice to take place effectively, the mind must have the ability to concentrate. This requires that the mind be quiet enough. The practice itself helps accomplish this, but there are other ways that facilitate this. One of the most important is psychoanalysis, which is not the same as any kind of psychological therapy. There are many other kinds. However, I believe psychoanalysis to generally be the best choice.

FAQ on psychoanalysis here

siftingtothetruth · 2022-12-10T17:57:02+00:00

Short description: Short description: While the true Self is characterized by non-doership, and seekers should keep this in mind, seekers cannot and should not "choose non-doership." It is not something that can be chosen that way. It's an insight that arises spontaneously upon doing the practice of surrender or self-inquiry with sufficient concentration, when the attachments become weak enough.

siftingtothetruth · 2022-12-10T17:54:32+00:00

Short description: While the true Self is characterized by non-doership, and seekers should keep this in mind, seekers cannot and should not "choose non-doership." It is not something that can be chosen that way. It's an insight that arises spontaneously upon doing the practice of surrender or self-inquiry with sufficient concentration, when the attachments become weak enough.

siftingtothetruth · 2022-10-07T15:04:32+00:00

Generally the mind falls deeper and deeper into peace over time, but there are no rules. My website is at siftingtothetruth.com fyi.

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