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Psychoanalysis for issues in the family

There is a significant change in the familial structures due to urbanisation, modernisation and increasing individualism. These changes are challenging the underlying rules and assumptions resulting in isolation, disconnection and disruption of the family unit as being the go-to safe place in times of emotional and psychological upheaval. Psychoanalysis provides a lens to understand and work with these changes and the underlying patterns while providing a way to analyse and respond to the needs of others without sacrificing your own.

There is a significant change in the familial structures due to urbanisation, modernisation and increasing individualism. These changes are challenging the underlying rules and assumptions resulting in isolation, disconnection and disruption of the family unit as being the go-to safe place in times of emotional and psychological upheaval. Psychoanalysis provides a lens to understand and work with these changes and the underlying patterns while providing a way to analyse and respond to the needs of others without sacrificing your own.

There is a significant change in the familial structures due to urbanisation, modernisation and increasing individualism. These changes are challenging the underlying rules and assumptions resulting in isolation, disconnection and disruption of the family unit as being the go-to safe place in times of emotional and psychological upheaval. Psychoanalysis provides a lens to understand and work with these changes and the underlying patterns while providing a way to analyse and respond to the needs of others without sacrificing your own.

You are

You feel

You believe

  1. You are the struggling to balance the needs of the generation before and your own dreams and ambitions. You are finding their approach and demands stifling and restrictive. You want to live life at your own terms but are feeling trapped.

  1. You are the struggling to balance the needs of the generation before and your own dreams and ambitions. You are finding their approach and demands stifling and restrictive. You want to live life at your own terms but are feeling trapped.

  1. You are the struggling to balance the needs of the generation before and your own dreams and ambitions. You are finding their approach and demands stifling and restrictive. You want to live life at your own terms but are feeling trapped.

  1. Your nest is empty or will soon be. Your life was defined by your role as a parent and provider and with young ones flying away you are faced with the task of living a life centered around yourself without ever having done so.

  1. Your nest is empty or will soon be. Your life was defined by your role as a parent and provider and with young ones flying away you are faced with the task of living a life centered around yourself without ever having done so.

  1. Your nest is empty or will soon be. Your life was defined by your role as a parent and provider and with young ones flying away you are faced with the task of living a life centered around yourself without ever having done so.

  1. You are feeling that you are valued as long as you do what others in the family expect of you and are carrying the burden of their expectations. You are struggling to hold it all together while being attentive to your own needs.

  1. You are feeling that you are valued as long as you do what others in the family expect of you and are carrying the burden of their expectations. You are struggling to hold it all together while being attentive to your own needs.

  1. You are feeling that you are valued as long as you do what others in the family expect of you and are carrying the burden of their expectations. You are struggling to hold it all together while being attentive to your own needs.

  1. You feel you are the isolated one, the ignored one, the one who missed out when love was being apportioned. You wonder why life is so unfair and why you have to fight for love, appreciation and being valued for who you are or who you choose to be.

  1. You feel you are the isolated one, the ignored one, the one who missed out when love was being apportioned. You wonder why life is so unfair and why you have to fight for love, appreciation and being valued for who you are or who you choose to be.

  1. You feel you are the isolated one, the ignored one, the one who missed out when love was being apportioned. You wonder why life is so unfair and why you have to fight for love, appreciation and being valued for who you are or who you choose to be.

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Stress in the family is a complex matter because of gender, generational trauma and a history of unresolved, brushed under the carpet issues. There is an additional dimension of tradition and collective values that can be in opposition to the your own needs. Unlike the workplace where you can leave to find another job, the family unit stays for life and a disconnection or estrangement takes a toll on everyone involved. The stress build-up is slow making it deep-rooted, intractable and invisible. Taking the first step towards exploring what-is opens up possibilities to a richer and harmonious what can-be.

You are

You feel

You believe

You are

You feel

You believe

Sudhir Ghodke

Sudhir Ghodke

Sudhir Ghodke

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