Kimberly Schlievert is a doctor of psychology, and practices at at local hospital,after owning a successfull clinical psychology practice for 13 years. She is also a registered nurse. In addition, she has taught psychology at the junior college level and at a local university. She has specialized in stress management, anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. She has developed, written and presented various workshops, and has also written a number of books. Her passion is writing, and she hopes to use it as a medium to help others with both mental and physical illness.

My passion is ...

my family and children.

I know too much about ...

medicine and pathophysiology-I scare myself sometimes, thinking I have symptoms consistent with something bad.

My parents always told me ...

To tell the truth.

My childhood ambition ...

To be a rock star.

My favorite memory ...

Seeing Disneyland for the first time with my beloved grandparents.

Why I write ...

I love it!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I am presently listening to Genesis-Turn it on Again.

My first job ...

was as an underpaid babysitter.

My best moment ...

graduation with my doctorate.

My inspiration ...

to help others through my writing, and be a stay home mom, with a writing job.

Sciences > Psychology The significance of lying on the couch at a psychoanalyst's office

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There are many reasons that a psychoanalyst uses a couch in his or her office; it is one of the many tools used to uncover and decode unconscious content during a psychotherapeutic session.

The use of a couch helps the analyst remain a "blank slate" during the session, which is very important in psychoanalytic theory. The client/patient is supposed to lie down on the couch, clear their mind, and begin free-associating (saying whatever comes to mind). The psychoanalyst actually sits behind the patient's head, when this free-associating process is occurring, so that the patient ...

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