Psychoanalyst Paris – Alain Julienne

About me : English-speaking psychoanalyst Paris – Alain Julienne

Psychoanalysis… It is primarily about two people meeting. Each work is unique, and each has its own timing: this applies to both the patient and the psychoanalyst. There is no age for psychoanalytic work; I see very young people as well as the elderly.

The sufferings are multiple and diverse: anxiety, depression, phobia, melancholy, obsession, panic, hallucination, lack of self-confidence, the feeling of not being in one’s place, of doing the opposite of what one would like to do. The pains can be physical and affect various parts of the body: stomach aches, back pain, diffuse or very specific. As children, we may have been subjected to perceptions, sensations that were too violent, which broke through the psychological barriers we had not yet finished erecting. These ‘affects’ were not translated into words.

There are certain circumstances in which integrity, even life, is genuinely threatened: wars, violence, whether intra-familial or not. Let us particularly note the sexual acts committed against children. At that moment, the child is alone; there is no one else to turn to, the only “other” is the predator, and this is something they did not expect. The situation, the words, the gestures are as if frozen. Time stops. “Intrusive thoughts” – from that time – intrude into the subject’s psyche, who suddenly falls into another time. The worst is when they encounter the denial of their loved ones.

It is up to the analyst and the patient to restart the arrow of time and to place that frozen past, which radiates through their life, back in its rightful place, in the past. These “frozen” moments can be transmitted to future generations in different forms: violence, phobia, dissociation…

Psychoanalyst in Paris