Pia Hylén Psychologist

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Pia Hylén Psychologist

English-speaking psychologist and psychoanalyst in greater Lisbon area, Setúbal and Azeitão. On-line and in vivo.

Helping expats, nomads, English and French speakers with anxiety, depression or burnout symptons - adapting to a new culture and lifestyles. I’m a psychologist trained at UC Berkeley, University of Copenhagen, Cornell Medical Center, and École de la Cause Freudienne, Paris. I specialize in helping people clarify their emotions and transform the way they connect with others. Whether you're facing life challenges, feeling overwhelmed, or seeking to understand yourself better, therapy provides a space to gain clarity and develop solutions. In therapy, we’ll examine issues together, looking at specific elements while considering the bigger picture. My approach supports you in bridging the gap between your thoughts and emotions, integrating these parts to create a more harmonious, authentic self. If you’re ready to explore change, I’m here to help.

19/02/2026

Therapy is not about boosting confidence or strengthening the ego. In a Lacanian sense, it produces a knowledge that emerges through speech, slips, and repetition. This knowledge transforms the subject’s relation to their symptom — from something suffered as fate to something read as their own formation of desire.

18/02/2026

It’s very common that just before the end of therapy, something in the patient wants to leave.
When the end approaches, the subject comes close to separating from that fantasy, and that can feel like a loss, even if the symptom has improved.
There is also the question of transference: the analyst has occupied a special place in the patient’s psychic economy. To end is to give up that place — and that can stir anxiety.
So the wish to quit is often not failure, but a sign that something real is at stake.

13/02/2026

Out of the Office, Into the Id 🥥🌴
Finally traded the clinical couch for a beach cabana in Thailand. It turns out that when you stop analyzing the "why" and start focusing on the "where," life feels a lot less like a Rorschach test and a lot more like a postcard.
Here’s my professional assessment of the situation:
The Ego: Currently sunburnt but thriving.
The Superego: On an extended lunch break (likely involving Pad Thai).
The Id: Running the show. It wanted a third coconut, and I wasn't about to repress that urge.

07/02/2026

Therapy and analysis isn’t about making you “happy.”
“Happiness” is often a cover — a way to avoid our inner conflicts.
In therapy, we don’t rush to silence those tensions. We listen to them.
Symptoms aren’t errors. They speak about your desire and how you learned to survive.
The work is learning to live more truthfully with yourself — not becoming a perfectly happy version of you.

02/02/2026

We think we “know” what we’re saying… but in analysis, speech does more than transmit ideas — it reveals the unconscious.
You don’t get cured by knowing — you get transformed by hearing yourself differently.

30/01/2026

Beautiful how this scene lets the gaze rest while desire keeps moving. The calm surface almost makes us forget that what touches us most is what isn’t there, what slips between image and sound. The breath of the instrument feels like lack made audible — something speaking without saying. It’s a rare aesthetic moment where serenity and structural absence coexist. That’s the kind of beauty that doesn’t soothe, but quietly opens space inside us.

30/01/2026

The image is still, but desire moves.
Sound breathes where meaning falls away.
Beauty appears exactly where something is missing.
A quiet scene, opening an inner space.

30/01/2026

Flowers, water, fish, bronze Buddhas — a world arranged as image, as surface, as lure.
The gaze rests, but desire doesn’t; it slides, like water, around what cannot be held.
The long wooden instrument breathes — not meaning, but lack made sound.
Beauty and grace are not harmony, but a veil: what covers the absence at the center.
Even the local spirit knows — we don’t seek the object, we circle what’s missing.

28/01/2026

Sometimes the symptom speaks before “you” do.
In psychoanalysis, the unconscious doesn’t wait for your conscious story — it shows up through the body, habits, anxiety, pain, repetition. The symptom is not random; it’s a message written in a language you don’t yet know you’re speaking. Your body can say what your ego cannot admit. The symptom is the truth knocking, before the subject is ready to answer.

25/01/2026

> Thailand teaches something the West keeps forgetting: that peace is not the result of mastering life, but of loosening one’s grip on it. In the Thai way of living — the smile that doesn’t explain itself, the patience that doesn’t demand recognition — desire is allowed to circulate without constantly having to justify itself. From a Lacanian angle, this is a culture less obsessed with filling the lack, more attuned to living alongside it. And in that coexistence with lack, something rare emerges: not happiness as performance, but a quiet internal peace that doesn’t need an audience.

23/01/2026

Analysis can hurt because it interrupts what usually protects you.
It loosens the stories that keep desire quiet.
What speaks instead is the unconscious — and it’s not always polite.

21/01/2026

Insight doesn’t stop repetition.
What returns is asking to be heard.
So keep listening.

Endereço

Rua Pinheiro Chagas 48, 4
Lisbon
1050-179

Website

http://2piahylen.com/

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