Christia Haddad

Completing a Master’s degree in Clinical psychology and psychopathology has taught me a lot about the complexity of the human being. Having a psychoanalytical approach helps you understand relationships between people and the world in different ways. The goal of this therapy is to help patients understand their unconscious mind, that could be leading them to have certain behaviors, thoughts and emotions, to repeat certain patterns. It frequently involves going back to the early childhood years in order to discover how past events shaped and contributed to their current actions and behavior. The free association technique is what, in my opinion, makes this type of therapy relevant, as the patient says whatever crosses their mind and can build on this association, later on they can try to elaborate reasons why they thought about this specific thing and not something else. Combining techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy with a background understanding of psychodynamics theories makes therapy much more efficient. Integrative therapy, in my opinion, is most effective as we’ll use different fundamentals from different schools of psychotherapy in order to help our patients get through their suffering, and that’s why during my BA I completed a lot of courses that unites both techniques, “Emotion et Cognition” “Inconscient et communication” “Les difficultés existentielles de l’adulte” “Introduction à la sémiologie psychiatrique” and so many more courses that are practical to use in therapy.