Couples Therapy

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The cycle analytic method is that we're always leaning into the part of the psyche that we don't know. I mean, what you want is to go into the direction that you don't yet know. What do you say to couples who may avoid therapy because they feel like going would be an admission that their relationship is somehow failing or that it's not for them? "I'm just like, you're not curious to go to your edge," he says.

In her critically acclaimed Showtime docuseries, Couples Therapy, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Orna Guralnik thinks deeply about relationships, emotions, and connection. In this episode, Dr. Guralnik explains why she believes psychoanalysis helps us love better, dispels myths about the right time to go to therapy, and gives tips on how to unblock our relationship with the world around us. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts