I'm being mentored right now in psychoanalysis-I love it. Would love to talk with you about it too-it really is an amazing therapy.

My favorite contribution to analysis other than free association is something called "object relations".

Basically, how I explain that, is we had conflicts in our childhoods, and we recreate the conflicts unconciously over and over again-to either resolve it, or fall into it.

For example...
My mom would say she was gonna come over, but never did, and I would just sit in the driveway waiting for hours. Now, as an adult, it affects me really bad when people say they are gonna come over, or be somewhere, and they don't. Happened to me today-a friend was suppossed to be at psych club, but didn't show. It happened just last week too, so this time I decided to send an e-mail expressing what her not showing up did to me-
such bad timing. She was in a car wreck. If I don't talk about this stuff, it's just gonna resurfacing in different ways.

Wohoo, welcome to analysis, lol