Steven Jay Yagerman

While friends can help relieve loneliness and various medications can ease symptoms, it is the art of psychoanalysis that helps to change the way you see, experience and interact with your own feelings and the world around you. It is amazing how quickly the dynamic interaction between a person who is curious about his or her life and an attuned analyst can begin to unravel the knots that keep us bound up in cycles of guilt, shame, anxiety, fear and despair. My assumption is that the truth about each of us has been concealed for the sake of getting along. My goal is to focus my attention on you: to be with you through the often confusing and sometimes upsetting work of sorting out the places that your life has been wounded or gotten stuck. I try to bring a mind that is alive to the moment and to you. Our work together will be open and transparent. As I listen to you I am also listening to my reciprocal thoughts and emotions. I am not the great doctor who sweeps down with a final interpr