Dr. Thomas Patrick Helscher

Dr. Thomas Patrick Helscher is a Santa Monica, California based psychologist who is specialized in Psychoanalysis. Active license number of Dr. Thomas Patrick Helscher is RP 71 for Psychoanalysis in California. His current practice location is 3201 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 205, Santa Monica. Patients can reach him at 310-829-4799. Dr. Thomas Patrick Helscher is PH.D., PSY.D. in Psychoanalysis and his NPI number (Unique professional ID assigned by NPPES) is 1306094123.
Dr. Thomas Patrick Helscher is a practitioner of psychoanalysis which includes methods of eliciting from patients their past emotional experiences and their role in influencing their current mental life, in order to discover the conflicts and mechanisms by which their pathologic mental state has been produced and to furnish hints for psychotherapeutic procedures, the method employs free association, recall and interpretation of dreams and interpretation of transference and resistance phenomena.
Psychoanalysis psychologist is an individual who is educated with a doctorís degree in psychoanalysis or psychology, trained at an established psychoanalytic institute, and practices or adheres to the principles of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is a form of psychotherapy and a system of investigation for determining and understanding mental processes, which was originally conceived by Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis involves the analysis and interpretation of dreams, resistances, and transferences, and uses free association and catharsis. Clinical practice requires licensure.