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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Une psychothérapie en profondeur est un traitement approprié et efficace pour la dépression. Mais bien que les symptômes de la dépression soient bien connus, le déroulement et les effets d'une psychothérapie sont entourés de mystère. Cet article en décrit et illustre quelques principes.</p>
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<blockquote class="text-big shortcode-blockquote"><p>Une psychothérapie en profondeur est un traitement approprié et efficace pour la dépression. Mais bien que les symptômes de la dépression soient bien connus, le déroulement et les effets d&#8217;une psychothérapie pour la dépression sont entourés de mystère. Cet article en décrit et illustre quelques principes.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><b>1 &#8211; Les symptômes de la dépression</b></p>
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			<p>C’est un des maux de l’âme les plus répandus, puisqu’une personne sur cinq en sera affectée au cours de sa vie. Et comme c’est une souffrance encore stigmatisée dans bien des cas, on peut hésiter à se l’avouer, et surtout à rechercher un diagnostic formel. On parle plus volontiers de “mauvaise passe”, de “coup de mou”.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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“Je suis d’un humeur telle que, si j’étais sous l’eau, c’est à peine si je bougerais pour remonter”.</p>
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			<p>Pourtant, les symptômes, pour la plupart bien connus, peuvent être très difficiles à vivre. Philipe Labro illustre ce mal avec éloquence dans son livre “Tomber sept fois, se relever huit”, où il fait le récit de sa propre expérience. “Perte du désir, je n’ai plus goût à rien. Manger est une épreuve, boire une punition. La mandarine n’a plus de goût, la purée ne passe pas à travers la gorge, le café laisse des traces d’amertume”.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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			<p>Ce mal physique s’accompagne le plus souvent d’une tristesse qui dure, et qui paraît parfois ne pas avoir d’objet ni de cause ; de ruminations ; d’une difficulté à se concentrer, voire à penser ; d’une irritabilité. Le poète John Keats résume bien la condition quand il écrit à un ami : “Je suis d’un humeur telle que, si j’étais sous l’eau, c’est à peine si je bougerais pour remonter”.</p>

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<blockquote class="text-big shortcode-blockquote"><p>&#8220;Même si un épisode dépressif peut paraître limité dans le temps, la condition chronique sous-jacente doit être traitée pour éviter une rechute. Si ce n’est pas fait, cela se produira dans 75% des cas&#8221;</p>
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			<p>Les mots de Keats illustrent un des aspects les plus difficiles à vivre de la dépression : la perte de toute perspective, de toute force, de tout espoir. Il est difficile alors, voire impossible, d’imaginer qu’on puisse nous aider, et qu’il soit possible de ressentir autre chose un jour.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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			<p>Pourtant, l’aide est bien là, et elle peut être très efficace. Elle est aussi nécessaire. Car même si un épisode dépressif peut paraître limité dans le temps, la condition chronique sous-jacente doit être traitée pour éviter une rechute. Si ce n’est pas fait, cela se produira dans 75% des cas.</p>

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			<p>Tous les patients qui m’ont été adressés par des médecins pour une psychothérapie interpersonnelle pour la dépression se sont vus d’abord recommander un antidépresseur. La plupart d’entre eux avaient décidé de suivre cette recommandation en même temps qu’ils suivaient une psychothérapie.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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<blockquote class="text-big shortcode-blockquote"><p>&#8220;Il est recommandé de consulter un psychothérapeute, qu’on suive un traitement médicamenteux ou non.&#8221;</p>
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			<p>Le médicament peut être très utile, et “marche” souvent, même s’il y a un vrai débat sur cette efficacité et sur la meilleures manière de la mesurer. Au mieux, il permet d’atténuer les symptômes les plus difficiles à gérer, et de continuer à “fonctionner”.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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			<p>Mais s’il peut endiguer un épisode dépressif, il ne constitue pas un traitement de fond de la dépression. C’est pourquoi il est recommandé de consulter un psychothérapeute, qu’on suive un traitement médicamenteux ou non.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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			<p>Traiter la dépression au moyen d’une psychothérapie peut représenter un investissement considérable. C’est parce que c’est une approche rigoureuse qui va au delà du symptôme &#8211; sans l’ignorer &#8211; pour aborder en profondeur tout l’ensemble du psychisme de la personne.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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			<p>C’est une démarche qui s’inscrit dans le temps et dans la régularité, et dont les effets peuvent être très profonds. Par exemple, j’ai noté qu’une personne peut devenir plus calme, plus résiliente, plus libre et créative si elle a suivi une psychothérapie.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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			<p>Mes patients en début de traitement me demandent souvent que je les aide à trouver des “clés”. Dans l’imaginaire de beaucoup d’entre eux, ce sont d’anciens traumatismes enfouis dans l’inconscient qu’il suffit de mettre au jour pour que le mal soit neutralisé. Ces choses existent bien, mais c’est très rarement le cas qu’il suffise d’une pour expliquer &#8211; et soulager totalement &#8211; une expérience aussi complexe que la dépression.</p>

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<blockquote class="text-big shortcode-blockquote"><p>&#8220;Le thérapeute saura s’intéresser à ce qui paraît inintéressant, et aidera le patient à trouver le fil rouge dans ses pensées, même si elle paraissent décousues.&#8221;</p>
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			<p>C’est ce coté imprévisible et irrationnel qui sollicite beaucoup la personne et lui demande le plus de persévérance. C’est d’ailleurs souvent ce qui motive leurs demandes de solutions concrètes et rapides. Mais le thérapeute saura garder à l’esprit que, pour écouter l’inconscient, il faut agir et penser indépendamment des pressions conscientes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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			<p>Le thérapeute saura s’intéresser à ce qui paraît inintéressant, et aidera le patient à trouver le fil rouge dans ses pensées, même si elle paraissent décousues.</p>

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			<p>Ce désir de trouver la clé, c’est en partie le résultat de la mystique qui entoure le travail de Freud, qui est souvent représenté de manière incomplète. C’est aussi un message du patient qui veut aller mieux <i>vite</i>, car vivre une dépression peut parfois être insupportable et mener à l’irréparable. Le risque de décès par suicide est effectivement multiplié par 25 chez les personnes souffrant de dépression.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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			<p>Donc, il n’y a le plus souvent pas une seule clé, mais une multitude, et elles se trouvent rarement où on les attend. C’est pourquoi la psychothérapie ne se contente pas d’une enquête méthodique et rationnelle sur le passé de la personne. Il s’agit de suivre l’inconscient au plus près, tel qu’il se manifeste spontanément au détour du discours et du comportement conscients lors de la séance, dans la digression, le lapsus, l’improvisation.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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			<p>Il n’y a pas de parcours type. Mais on peut dire que le fonctionnement d’une thérapie est à l’image de l&#8217;amélioration qu’elle propose, et que Philippe Labro décrit avec ces mots : “elle est invisible, inaudible. Elle arrive à tout petits pas sur les toutes petites pattes d’un tout petit chat, on ne l’entend pas venir”.</p>

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			<p>L’aspect le plus important d’une psychothérapie est d’apprendre à se voir de manière juste. A cet égard, il n&#8217;y a pas de détail qui soit insignifiant. Le thérapeute aidera le patient à developper cette discipline jusqu’à ce qu’elle aussi devienne inconsciente. Comme le dit enfin Labro, “si vous avez cru discerner le murmure assourdi des pattes du petit chat, ne l’oubliez pas”.</p>

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			<p><sup>1</sup> <a href="https://www.inicea.fr/la-depression-chiffres-cles#chapitre">https://www.inicea.fr/la-depression-chiffres-cles#chapitre</a></p>
<p><sup>2</sup> Philippe Labro, “Tomber sept fois, se relever huit”, Folio, Paris, 2003, p. 37</p>
<p><sup>3</sup> <a href="https://www.inicea.fr/la-depression-chiffres-cles#chapitre">https://www.inicea.fr/la-depression-chiffres-cles#chapitre</a></p>
<p><sup>4</sup> https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/antidepressants-on-trial-how-valid-is-the-evidence/E94E7663ACBC91A287A462E06B7B12EC</p>
<p><sup>5</sup> <a href="https://www.inicea.fr/la-depression-chiffres-cles#chapitre">https://www.inicea.fr/la-depression-chiffres-cles#chapitre</a></p>
<p><sup>6</sup> Philippe Labro, “Tomber sept fois, se relever huit”, Folio, Paris, 2003, p. 178</p>
<p><sup>7</sup> ibid.</p>

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<li>Un problème rencontré par beaucoup</li>
<li> Les symptômes en sont connus (tristesse qui dure, perte de désir, d’énergie, irritation, troubles de la concentration et de la mémoire)</li>
<li> Une très forte chance de rechute si le problème n’est pas traité</li>
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<li>Si le médicament peut endiguer un épisode dépressif, la psychothérapie pur la dépression est un traitement de fond qui s’adressera au problème chronique</li>
<li>Pour être efficace, le traitement demandera une certaine persévérance</li>
<li>Le but sera d’aider la personne à développer une vue juste et cohérente de sa personne</li>
<li>Une psychothérapie interpersonnelle pour la dépression apporte des changements graduels</li>
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			<h2>1- What is social anxiety?</h2>
<p>Most online and offline publications will define social anxiety as the excessive fear of social situations. People who have come to see me for help with this problem have also often described that they may feel discomfort in <em>any</em> social interaction, even if this is with “just the one person”. Because of this, I prefer to define social anxiety as <em>the discomfort that relates to the experience of any relationship</em>.</p>
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«In every contact, we communicate a bit of ourselves to the other, and the other is there to receive it, for better or for worse. In that respect, every social situation is significant, because it says something about us.»
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<h2>2- Why does it happen?</h2>
<p>We form our person and our character in the context relationships – to the family we were born in, to the community around us, to school, to our chosen communities of friends, spouses and children, to our communities at work. These relationships are not just a backdrop to our lives: by interacting within them, we evolve through them, and them through us.</p>
<p>It is perfectly healthy to feel a measure of trepidation in all forms of contact with other people, whether it is a brief exchange with a waiter, a discussion with a headmaster, or a presentation in front of the board of a company. After all, every personal contact, no matter how brief or apparently shallow, is an  experience that engages our person, consciously and unconsciously. In every contact, we communicate a bit of ourselves to the other, and the other is there to receive our communication, for better or for worse. In that regard, every social situation is significant because it says something about us.</p>
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<strong>«Psychotherapy, to be effective, must include two aspects at least: reflection on oneself and action on one’s environment.»</strong>
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<h2>3- When does it become a problem?</h2>
<p>However, for many, this creates a level of discomfort that can feel difficult to bear, which may lead some to assuming that all social contact will be painful, and therefore to avoiding certain social situations, and sometimes, most, if not all, social situations. This can be extremely distressing and debilitating.</p>
<h2>4- Addressing the issue</h2>
<p>It is my experience that psychotherapy, to be effective, must include two aspects at least: reflection on oneself and action on one’s environment. This is especially true when the concern that needs addressing is social anxiety. Action alone, which can be, for example, challenging one’s assumptions about other people’s thoughts about us and changing the way we interact with them, is not enough to create a deep-seated sense of safety in a social setting. Similarly, reflection alone will not help the person to “land” the insights acquired and create new and more helpful behaviours.</p>
<p>Therefore, I encourage my patients to:</p>
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<li>take a historical perspective on their experience of social interactions</li>
<li>examine the feelings, thoughts and sensations that they associate with them</li>
<li>get a deeper sense of who they are as a person, and what sort of social existence they are really meant to live</li>
<li>observe in detail what they go through as they apply their insights and progressively approach life with others in different ways</li>
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<p>The quote by St Francis of Assisi sums quite well my approach to helping people address their social anxiety, as it reflects its progressive nature and the surprises that can arise out of the process:</p>
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«Start by doing what’s necessary. Then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible»
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Depth psychotherapy is an effective treatment for depression, and aims to help a person restore their ability to form relationship to others and the world. </p>
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			<p style="text-align: left;">Depression is the most prevalent of mental health problems. Studies have shown that it occurs in 1 in 10 adults or 10 per cent of the population in Britain at any one time. It is quite common to experience a depressive episode as a reaction to an event. It also happens that depression sets in “out of the blue”, and does not seem to go away by itself.</p>

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			<p>This experience can be deeply painful; poet John Keats wrote to a close friend: “I am in a temper that if I were under water, I would scarcely kick to come to the top”. It is part of life’s requirements that we should be able to tolerate periods of low mood, and it is to be expected that sometimes we find ourselves challenging the value of things and of life itself. If however we have an entrenched feeling of futility and find ourselves disempowered and persistently disengaged from life, this is probably something worth attending to.</p>

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			<p>In my experience it is possible to understand and successfully to address depression through the process of psychotherapy and counseling. Psychotherapist D.W. Winnicott (1958) wrote of John Keats that:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>“[he] was someone who took the risk of feeling things deeply and of taking responsibility. […] If we look at depression this way, we can see that it is the really valuable people in the world who get depressed.”</em></p>
<p>These words remind us that the experience of depression should be <em>respected</em> in the process of psychotherapy. It is by <em>working it through</em> that its value ultimately appears, along with the fundamental qualities of the individual coming for help.  The goal of psychotherapy applied to depression is to allow insight to emerge and to use the therapeutic space as a “springboard” to reconnect with oneself, with others and with the world.</p>

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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The unconscious is the ever present force in our daily actions. Unless we acknowledge this, our actions will not be framed by the present, but by the past – and we won’t know it. Psychotherapy aims to restore a good working relationship with our unconscious minds.</p>
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<p>Most of what we know, we have learned; and most of what we have learned, we have learned without actually being taught. We build up – and use – this untaught knowledge with every instant of life, mostly without being aware of it. To live is to apply past experience to present situations in order to shape the future.</p>



<p>We don’t have the ‘bandwidth’ to be aware of all of our mind all of the time. In fact, we are only aware of a small fraction of what goes on at any given moment. What we are not aware of, we call the Unconscious, and it is the “force behind most of our mental and behavioural operations”.</p>



<p>This is perfectly fine as long as we know our minds well enough – that is, how we learn and apply ourselves. But, as J.D. Siegel warns us: “We act, feel and imagine without recognition of the importance of past experience on our present reality<sup>1</sup>”.</p>



<p>As a consequence of this, we are likely to respond inappropriately to situations – we treat the present like the past without knowing it – and we experience our minds as foreign to us, or at worst, hostile. This is where anxiety and obsessive disorders thrive, and where the unfair and inaccurate stories we unconsciously develop about ourselves hold most sway and get reinforced. These self-narratives can become “an unshakeable story that become a part of [our] self-definition”.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote has-text-align-left is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>“These self-narratives can become “an unshakeable story <br>that become a part of [our] self-definition”</p><cite>E. Ginot <sup>2</sup></cite></blockquote>



<p>Psychotherapy concerns itself with these self-narratives, and offers the person coming for help a set of conditions where they can be safely brought to light and progressively neutralised. <strong>The endeavour to restore a genuine and enduring curiosity about, and intimacy with, our own minds is at the heart of the practice of psychotherapy.</strong></p>



<p class="has-small-font-size">1 Siegel, J.D., &#8220;The developing mind: towards a neurobiology of interpersonal experience&#8221;, 1999, New York, Guilford Press, p. 29</p>



<p class="has-small-font-size">2 Ginot, E., &#8220;The neurobiology of the unconscious&#8221;, 1995, W.W. Norton &amp; Company, p. 97</p>



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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Couples who are encountering difficulties can benefit from a space, where each  can understand the dynamics of their relationship, and how to effect change. This can be achieved individually, as is often the case, or as a consulting couple. </p>
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			<p class="p1"><span class="s1">What makes for a well-functioning, ultimately successful relationship? It’s up to every pair to find out what works for them. This “finding out together” is a vital part of being in a relationship. One could even say that it <i>is</i> the relationship.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">However, sometimes communication and intimacy get lost, and situations become stuck. Any deadlock can affect both partners and perhaps children or dependents, and often threatens the existence of the relationship.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Conflicts are a natural and healthy occurrence in every relationship and offer great opportunities to learn about each other and to make it stronger. When the relationship does not seem to allow for this learning, then it is worth investing in a space, where this inquiry can start and live.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">For this, it is appropriate to consider:</span></p>
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<li class="li2" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">relationship counselling and psychotherapy for each partner  a</span></li>
<li class="li2"><span class="s1">counselling and therapy for couples</span></li>
<li class="li2"><span class="s1">a combination of both individual and couples or relationship therapy. This solution is particularly effective.</span></li>
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<p class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">In relationship counselling, the primary aim is to understand the patterns of behaviour that affect the functioning of the couple, how they have come about, how this affects the client, and how to correct them.</span></p>
<p class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">In my experience, clients who come to see me for relationship counselling or relationship therapy also experience anxiety, depression or stress, and may require help with anger management. It is very common for the two types of work to progress alongside each other.</span></p>
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<p class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">Couples counselling or therapy is a space for the relationship to become clear and conscious. It helps the partners to:</span></p>
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<li class="li2"><span class="s1">begin or improve communication</span></li>
<li class="li2"><span class="s1">see things from the other’s perspective</span></li>
<li class="li2"><span class="s1">make informed choices about how to engage with each other.</span></li>
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<p class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">Couples counselling is particularly effective when the problems that the partners are experiencing are due to a recent and sometimes unexpected change of circumstances in their relationship. For example, this may be due to:</span></p>
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<li class="li2"><span class="s1">problems conceiving</span></li>
<li class="li2"><span class="s1">issues with sexuality</span></li>
<li class="li2"><span class="s1">infidelity of one or both partners</span></li>
<li class="li2"><span class="s1">the birth or adoption of a child</span></li>
<li class="li2"><span class="s1">a change in professional circumstances such as a promotion, an expatriation or a redundancy</span></li>
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<p class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">Couples therapy is effective when partners notice that, over time, the quality of their relationship seems to have diminished, and that the meaning of their being together is no longer evident.</span></p>
<p class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">I have experience in both couples counselling and couples therapy, and have helped many individual clients who came to my London practice seeking help for problems related to their couple.</span></p>
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