Dr Rosalind Foy in Brunswick Heads, New South Wales | Doctor

Dr Rosalind Foy

Locality: Brunswick Heads, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6685 0169

Address: Fawcett St 2483 Brunswick Heads, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.dr-rosalind-foy.com.au/

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06.01.2022 Dr Rosalind FOY

04.01.2022 The Practice will be closed from Thursday 24th December, 2015 to 4th January 2016. Merry Christmas and a Peaceful and Happy New Year

01.01.2022 Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis has come a long way since Freud, the patient on the couch and the analyst sitting out of sight making uh huh sounds at various intervals during the analytic hour. Psychoanalysis and its more modern incarnation as psychodynamic psychotherapy (which includes the many schools of thought that have arisen beyond and since Freud) is what happens when two people embark on a journey of self-knowledge. We need the ongoing presence of the other in order ...to be present to ourselves. Fractals (never- ending patterns present across multiple scales) occupy the space between, their borders presenting endless infinitely complex zones of meeting and negotiation. The border between order and chaos; inner and outer; known and unknown; conscious and unconscious; and self and other is the most volatile state, a source of creativity and vitality and the space where change can occur. Ninety-five per cent of our mental life occurs outside of our conscious awareness. The evolutionarily older part of the brain, the so-called reptilian brain thinks quickly, draws quick linkages, is automatic, effortless, is largely unconscious and emotionally charged. For example, it helps us to rapidly identify whether a person approaching is friend or foe and decide whether we stay or need to fight or flee. The newer, mammalian brain is slower, effortful and consciously monitored and controlled. This is how we learn things and commit them to our memory. Where two unconscious minds meet is fractal and open. The patient and therapist are in a unique relationship. A safe space is cocreated where patient and therapist use myths, dreams, fantasies and the wandering mind to explore emotions; identify recurring maladaptive patterns of behaviour/feelings; and examine past experiences and relationships in the light of the current patient-therapist relationship. Our habitual way of being is inevitably re-enacted in the therapeutic relationship. Seeing the therapist will reactivate pre-existing expectations and the interaction will be experienced as a replay of past relationships. With time and trust in the therapist, the patient’s automatic and disowned thoughts, feelings and behaviours (the quick habitual thinking system) are brought to consciousness, named and reclaimed as the patient’s own and then modified (via the slower, reflective conscious system) so that the mind is free to learn other ways of being and to create new interactions and relationships with the therapist and others. With more flexibility we are better able to tolerate uncertainty and ambiguity. Through talking, the neuroplastic brain can change itself. Psychodynamic psychotherapy has been shown to have enduring effects beyond the duration of treatment for various conditions including anxiety and depression. Understanding our past and ourselves helps us to live more fully in the present, grow, create and realise our potential.