The modest truth

Psychoanalysis radically distinguishes itself from the contemporary wellness industry by what it doesn't promise. It doesn't sell magical recipes for happiness or instant formulas for success. Its proposal is more modest and, paradoxically, more ambitious: the possibility of encountering our truth, however uncomfortable it may be. It doesn't offer a life instruction manual, but rather a space where questions can unfold.

This position directly contradicts today's self-help market, saturated with promises of immediate transformation and guaranteed happiness. While personal development "gurus" sell packaged certainties and prefabricated habits, psychoanalysis proposes something more unsettling: the exploration of those dark corners of the soul that we prefer to keep in the shadows.

While self-help sells packaged happiness, psychoanalysis proposes a modest truth: real wellbeing means embracing the parts of us that no success manual can fix.

The wellbeing that can emerge from analysis isn't that of the perpetual smile or forced optimism. It's the deeper relief that comes from stopping lying to oneself, from being able to inhabit one's own contradictions, from making peace with that part of ourselves that doesn't fit into any self-improvement manual. It's a wellbeing that includes discomfort as a necessary part of truth.