Dr méd. Stauffacher Maurice

How can I introduce myself to you, who have honored me with a few minutes of your time to visit my website?

You, my patients, my friends, my colleagues, my children, and my five grandchildren too;

First of all, Cendrine, teacher and yoga instructor, who in 1997 made me a young and happy grandfather.

Of course, my eldest daughter Ludmila, who lives in Versoix and works as a child psychiatrist.

My son Maurice Werner, who after graduating as a doctor undertook training as a psychiatrist.

And Guillaume, at the Gymnase de la Cité, who plans to become a doctor

 

All things considered, the personal experience of well-conducted psychoanalysis represents the most successful form of treatment for psychological suffering and various mental disorders; one could say it is the Rolls Royce of psychotherapies. There is no need to go into personal testimony, because no one could offer analytical treatment if they had not experienced it themselves.

Meeting an experienced psychoanalyst is a unique and irreplaceable experience in a psychiatrist's training, and I cannot recommend this experience highly enough to my young colleagues. However, psychoanalytic experience requires a considerable investment of time and money, medical indications are limited, and it requires a relatively developed and preserved mental functioning. Before learning to play music well, it is often necessary to repair the piano first, which is why we offer our patients all kinds of psychotherapies inspired by psychoanalysis, but adapted to each individual, their goals, limitations, availability, and financial means. We are happy to introduce hypnotic sequences, systemic interventions, or even medication or sick leave, to relieve suffering more quickly.

 

The goal of analytical work is simple. From the moment we are born, the destiny of human consciousness is to know ourselves and to come to terms with who we are. We might as well become good company for ourselves and learn how to resolve conflicts that arise, make choices, and thereby discover the priceless fragrance of freedom. And conflicts abound from childhood onwards, including sexuality, relationship conflicts, and professional conflicts. The first observation of psychoanalysis stems from this, namely that the basis of the psyche is conflictual and mobilizes our resources in frustration. The analytical approach consists of uncovering the various adjustments, in the form of unresolved unconscious intrapsychic conflicts, which we perceive as internal tensions, inhibitions, anxieties, and depressions, and which refer to a reactivated past.