Psychology Mercedes Puchol

Childhood is a fundamental period in the life of every human being and it is the time in which the basis of the psyche are established for future adulthood. A child's world is full of fantasies, emotions and feelings, and it is necessary to give these the place they deserve in the child's life. Psychological anxiety and suffering in childhood has its own unique language in each individual, and it is crucial to become aware of the various ways that it can be expressed. Often, when this kind of suffering appears, a neutral space, away from the child's conflicts and environment, is needed in order to begin a new experience for the child. This new experience will permit to transform the pain and to change the difficult and complex direction that the child's life can lead.

Child Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis intervene in these crucial moments of a child's life. Treatment is necessary when suffering appears and the path of one´s development does not run the natural course that aids one´s growth and maturity.

As a child psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, I work with children of all ages who display various types of problems or difficulties such as:

· Learning difficulties and failure at school.
· Symbolization difficulties and disturbances.
· Phobias, obsessions, complexes and fears.
· Behaviour problems: asocial conduct, compulsions and obsessive behaviour…
· Relational problems.
· Anxiety crises: tantrums, rage, anger and lack of control of emotions, sexuality and aggressiveness.
· Depressions and various types of inhibitions.
· Separation anxiety.
· Delayed learning of distinct functions or capacities: motor response, language, toilet training, eneursis (bed wetting), encopresis, chronic constipation, etc.
· Disturbances in relation to vital functions: anorexia, bulimia, insomnia…
· Psychosomatic disturbances.
· Psychotic and autistic disturbances in behaviour.