I come to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic treatment through an interest in the nature of experience. Quite early as a student, I found traditional ways of thinking and theorizing about human nature to be reductive or one sided. Looking to understand human subjectivity, I was repeatedly led into cul-de-sacs where experience was described in relationship to something that it wasn't. It was an emergent property of neurophysiology or was best understood in relation to behavior, etc. I had the good fortune of attending a small college in Pittsburgh (Duquesne University) with an outstanding program in psychology and philosophy, with an emphasis on existential phenomenological studies. Although it might seem counter-intuitive to explore experience by turning to philosophical theory, the whole emphasis of phenomenology is to turn, "to the things themselves," to a direct description of experience, as a means of understanding and exploring it. Duquesne has a deep tradition of phenomenological and hermeneutical research, and I learned there how to look and to think in a way that took into account the ways in which our looking and thinking are shaped by contexts. I learned how to study experience, both through phenomenological analysis and through an approach to psychotherapy informed by existential and psychoanalytic approaches. ...See more of this biographical sketch at:jackfoehl.com/biography.htmlI work with a goal of being a psychoanalyst scholar, developing deep understanding of the nature of human experience and what it means to change. I teach other clinicians in this regard, drawing on an extensive clinical and academic background.Specialties: Work with professionals in expanding capacities and overcoming inhibitions in love and work. Treating depression, anxiety, marrital and relationship issues; supervising clinicians in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.