Psychosomatic Psychoanalytic Community
Pain Center

Intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy
for patients who feel that pain has dehumanized them, making them feel lost in pain - pain without words, without subjectivities and without a story. 

Treatment available in our Bronx and Midtown locations.

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Rose Hill Psychoanalytic Pain Center (RHPC) inaugurates a state-of-the-art psychoanalytic/psychosomatic approach to help patients reclaim a sense of self, articulate a narrative of their deepest existential anxieties associated with chronic pain and progressively begin to reduce addictive and disabling pain medication, regain their humanity and desire for living, and begin to re-invest in their lives, relationships and histories. 

Individual, group, couple, family and art psychotherapy

About the Center

The Rose Hill Psychoanalytic Pain Center (RHPC) is a unique psychoanalytically oriented project that explicitly targets the treatment of pain in patients (adults, adolescents, and children). As the number of drug-addicted and chronic pain patients skyrockets astronomically nationwide in the post-COVID-19 era, this epidemic afflicts more and more communities in NYC. RHPC aims to create an alternative space where patients and psychoanalytic therapists work together to: 

  1. Support the patient's ability to recover their subjectivity, history, and self-respect via listening in one-to-one psychotherapy with therapists who work from a psychoanalytic psychosomatic perspective. 

  2. Discuss the appropriate use of pain medication and the potentially disastrous consequences of its abuse. 

  3. Offer a space to deal with the emotional and psychological dimensions of chronic pain and its medical treatments. 

  4. Create a space where therapists and patients can develop a community via psychoanalytic group work and additional therapeutic modalities (such as artwork/therapy and psychodrama). 

  5. Facilitate the restoration of meaning and a sense of selfhood and belonging in their families and communities in which they live. 

History

This project emerges from Rose Hill Psychological Services, a mental health center soon to begin its third decade delivering needed psychological care in NYC and the Bronx. Rose Hill is the affiliated clinic of Pulsion—The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics, a New York State Board of Regents-certified psychoanalytic institute. This Pulsion program on Psychosomatics draws on its collaboration with the Psychosomatic School of Paris (IPSO), which for almost 50 years has successfully delivered community-based psychoanalytic treatment of pain. 

Long before Pulsion's inauguration, Rose Hill Psychological Services (RH) investigated these issues extensively and trained clinicians to work with disaffection and somatic pain. This work became especially valuable during the COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 era since many patients suffered from prolonged COVID-19 fatigue and the wide variety of psychological symptoms that COVID has left in its wake. This work expanded with the establishment of Pulsion, a psychoanalytic institute in NYC with a specialized focus on the intersection of body/mind in the contemporary patient. 

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