SELF-PAY ONLY
Fee Is $200 Per Session.
Office Hours
By Appointment Only
Tuesdays & Wednesdays
Dr. Daniel Papapietro
Psychotherapy
Office Location
Farmington, CT 06032
Dr. Daniel J. Papapietro, PsyD
Clinical Psychologist
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy Supervision/Consultation
Farmington, Ct
860.269.4756
Dr. Papapietro maintains a psychotherapy practice devoted exclusively to individual psychotherapy.
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Dr. Papapietro is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 35 years of psychotherapy training and experience in outpatient and inpatient psychiatric settings, in private,
public, state and VA hospitals.
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For more than 3 decades Dr. Papapietro has been teaching, training, and supervising psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers in the theory and practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy.
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Dr. Papapietro holds a faculty appointment as
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at
the Univ. of Connecticut School of Medicine.
Psychotherapy Is Effective For The Following Common Problems:
Depression. Studies indicate that it can help people address, understand, and change recurring interpersonal patterns that play a significant part in their depression.
Anxiety. Numerous studies have concluded that psychoanalytic therapy often provides relief from social anxiety, social phobia, and panic disorder by understanding that symptoms are often expressions of unconscious psychological issues.
Chronic Pain . To explore the source of unexplained chronic pain with no clear physical cause, that results in a significant focus on physical symptoms and that results in major emotional distress and/or significant social and interpersonal problems.
Personality Disorders. Studies have found psychotherapy to be effective for many personality styles in which unstable moods, impulsivity, poor social/interpersonal styles, self-centeredness, insensitivity or a lack of empathy with others resulting in interpersonal conflicts in relationships.
Anger. Unrealistic entitlement and need to control others resulting in anger, irritability, poor frustration tolerance, and impulsivity can often be understood and managed through therapy.
Relationship Problems. Recurring patterns of relationship and interpersonal conflicts with family, friends, coworkers, and significant others often respond well to this type of therapy.
Trauma. Physical or emotional traumas or acute traumatic experiences, whether in childhood or later in life, can condition individuals to high levels of anxiety and stress that result in depression, insomnia, or anger.
Substance Abuse. Addictions often begin as efforts to self-medicate against powerful and frightening unconscious emotions that often arise from a variety of abandonment or other traumatic issues from childhood.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy can help you explore these experiences, explore and express the related emotions, understand their source in childhood, with a goal of freeing you from the control those issues have over you inn order to reduce the chaos and conflicts that substance use creates in your life. Psychodynamic psychotherapy along with active participation in 12-Step recovery programs can be very effective managing addictions
Why Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic Psychotherapy?
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is different from counseling or cognitive/behavioral treatments. These cognitive treatments sometimes provide some quicker relief, by focusing on just the symptom. And very often the symptom may get better, but just as often the symptoms return because the therapy did not address the underlying cause in the first place.
Psychotherapy addresses both the symptom as well as the underlying unconscious cause of the symptom.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a rigorous process that takes time and does not provide quick fixes. It is not about casual conversation, homework assignments, cheerful support or advice. The goal of psychotherapy is to help you to understand how your current problems of anxiety, depression, anger or substance use (just a few examples) are actually symptoms of deeper emotional issues. Psychotherapy is about helping you to understand yourself and your past, and that requires time, patience, and trust. This kind of psychotherapy is hard work and may not be for everyone.
For example, people often speak about being depressed as if that were the problem to treat. In fact, "depression" is a symptom of something else, and getting at the emotional root of this symptom requires in-depth exploration of all aspects of your life, beginning with childhood and family experiences, possible traumas, relationship losses, and other related painful memories.
This process applies to other emotional and interpersonal issues such as anxiety, relationship problems (at home and at work), and some addictions.
This kind of psychotherapy requires a willingness on your part to deeply explore your life. In order to do that you have to trust your doctor. And learning to trust takes time and requires taking emotional risks by being open and honest. The more you are able to trust and take risks to talk through your thoughts and feelings the more likely that you will be freed from these symptoms and more able to make better choices in life, to relate to others more appropriately, to have better and more mutually rewarding relationships allowing you to forge the kind of stable emotional life you desire.
Why is insurance not accepted?
Trust and privacy are absolutely crucial to psychotherapy so that you are free to think and speak openly and honestly about yourself without censoring. To do that you require a setting where you can feel safe and know that you have absolute confidentiality as provided by federal laws. The problem with insurance is that they typically require release of your personal information in order to decide whether or not they will pay for treatment. Insurance companies can and at times use your personal psychotherapy information to decide whether or not they will pay for your treatment. Also, once your information is released to an insurance company, neither you nor your therapist has any control over it. Therefore, psychodynamic psychotherapy works best when you know that your every thought and comment is protected by federal law.
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The links below are video presentations on psychodynamic therapy by Dr. Jonathan Shedler, one of today's leading writers and researchers on contemporary psychoanalytic therapy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNWy1ksxIDo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Iin4f0sgI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpHl9kuccc
https://jonathanshedler.com/writings/
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