Dr. Patricia Hunter

Psychologist

Dr. Patricia Hunter is a  psychologist and psychoanalyst based in New York City. Her career included turning points.  While working with abused children, she became curious about how trauma can impact a person's life. Interested in how our minds store memories in the unconscious, she became an interpersonal/relational psychoanalyst. Understanding that trauma is passed down from generation to generation, she wanted to know how that happens, and  earned a  Certificate in Couples and Family Therapy at NYU. She currently teaches Object Relations (the study of how character is shaped by the relationships we form, beginning in infancy)  at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. Skilled in  EMDR, IFS and AEDP, she helps her clients, both individuals as well as couples,  feel safe enough inside, to  open themselves to the world of feelings, so fundamental to our sense of who we are and what we want. She appreciates the need for defenses, supports the use of them when necessary, but also encourages patients to feel more vitality and more depth, more aware of their deeper selves, past the surface of day to day functioning to where meaning resides.  During the past few years, Dr Hunter has presented her work about political beliefs, dissociation, and couples therapy,  at national and international conferences.