Hannah Weiss, MA, LCPC - Psychotherapist

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122 S Michigan Ave, Suite 1305, Chicago, Illinois 60603
Added by Jopie, at 05 October 2017

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adults and adolescents, with offices in Northbrook and Chicago.

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• Anynomous

  07 May 2019

  Happy 163rd birthday to Sigmund Freud! In his honor, some time-old words on transference in the therapy relationship.

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• Anynomous

  21 April 2019

  “Leave to your opinions their own quiet undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be pressed or hurried by anything. Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of a feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one’s own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist’s life: in understanding as in creating.”

  -Rilke

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• Anynomous

  29 March 2019

  “Instead of terms like resilience, overcome, recover, and control; the terms fortitude, bear-with-courage, transform, and humility underlie a story that honors the strength of what it’s like to fall apart, completely rebuild against our will, and go on anyway; to go down and through the darkened way with help, trusting that it is the path to healing from the root of the soul.

  Fortitude means mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, or danger, especially over a long period.

  Bear means to carry and endure.

  Courage means the ability to do something that frightens you; and mental or moral strength to persevere and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.

  Transform means to make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of.

  These words tell the encouraging story of down-and-through, where messiness and pain are seen as part of the natural healing forces of grief — forces we need help and encouragement to bear with courage and fortitude over time, rather than to flee from or vanquish.”

  (Note that within this important article is a message about shame - that the piece is not meant to shame anyone’s methods of living after trauma/catastrophe/rupture, only that it is imperative we recognize and honor ways of moving down and through and being with.)

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• Anynomous

  06 October 2018

  “We are continually, if unconsciously, mutilating and deforming our own character. Indeed, so unrelenting is this internal violence that we have no idea what we are like without it. We know virtually nothing about ourselves because we judge ourselves before we have a chance to see ourselves (as though in panic). Or, to put it differently, we can judge only what we recognize ourselves as able to judge. What can’t be judged can’t be seen.”

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• Anynomous

  09 March 2018

  “No matter what our circumstances, we’re all carrying around things that hurt — and they can hurt us if we keep them buried inside. Not talking about our inner lives robs us of really getting to know ourselves and robs us of the chance to reach out to others in need. So if you’re reading this and you’re having a hard time, no matter how big or small it seems to you, I want to remind you that you’re not weird or different for sharing what you’re going through.”

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• Anynomous

  15 January 2018

  “emotional #empathy tends to go down when identity instability is higher. It is easy to fit this kind of relationship into our experiences with #narcissism. Identity stability ebbs and flows, directly impacting the capacity for emotional empathy; the greater the instability, the lower the empathy.”

  Thanks for writing the article, Grant H Brenner.

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• Anynomous

  28 November 2017

  Psychoanalytic #therapy can help one work through underlying conflicts which inhibit authentic self-expression - opening up space for enlivened #creativity.

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• Anynomous

  08 November 2017

  Thanks to Helaina Hovitz Regal for including my thoughts about #trauma, #PTSD, and our need to seek out similar experiences in an effort to integrate aspects of ourselves that do not fully feel like “our own.”

  Relatedly, a constant sense that something is missing, or a feeling of being “unreal,” can originate from warded off experiences, unclaimed experiences not yet fully lived through, which must be found in the present in a way that is tolerable. This hard work can be done with the help of a therapist.

  For additional thoughts on this evocative topic, I recommend reading Winnicott’s essay, published posthumously, “Fear of Breakdown.” Also noteworthy: Thomas Ogden’s response to this essay, published in 2013.

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• Anynomous

  12 October 2017

  “The paradox of the human condition, Nussbaum reminds us, is that while our capacity for vulnerability — and, by extension, our ability to trust others — may be what allows for tragedy to befall us, the greatest tragedy of all is the attempt to guard against hurt by petrifying that essential softness of the soul, for that denies our basic humanity.”

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