Pia Hylén Psychologist

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 l

ife 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.

01/08/2026

Emotions spread faster than facts. Spend enough time around fear, anger, or anxiety, and your nervous system begins to echo what surrounds it. The same is true for calm, joy, and confidence.
Lacan reminds us that the subject is never isolated—we are always caught in the desire and affect of the Other. What we feel is not always entirely our own.
Choose your environment wisely. It shapes you long before you become aware of it.

28/07/2026

You buy a red Mini Cooper, and suddenly it seems as though every other car on the road is a red Mini.
You learn the word apophenia, and within days you encounter it in books, podcasts, and conversations.
You hear about a psychological concept such as the Baader–Meinhof effect, and then notice it repeatedly everywhere....

26/07/2026

Immediate gratification promises everything—except the bill that arrives later.
What feels good in the moment can quietly borrow from tomorrow: our peace of mind, our health, our relationships, or our freedom. Desire asks for satisfaction, but wisdom asks: At what price?
Sometimes the smartest choice is not the fastest reward.

22/07/2026

The Curse of Knowledge is what happens when we forget what it was like not to know. Suddenly, the obvious isn't obvious anymore. We explain—but the other hears only fragments. Real communication begins when we remember that understanding is never automatic.

21/07/2026

Ever wondered why you end up singing that one song you didn't even like at first?
Psychologists call it the Mere Exposure Effect: the more often we encounter something, the more familiar—and often more likable—it becomes.
Perhaps it's not that the song became better. Perhaps you became accustomed to it.
Our desire isn't always born from what is beautiful. Sometimes it is born from repetition.

16/07/2026

The brain has an extraordinary talent:
it suddenly discovers efficiency precisely when time has almost run out.
What looked like procrastination becomes a remarkable orchestration of attention, memory, and action.
From a Lacanian perspective, perhaps it is not simply the brain that awakens, but desire itself. As long as there is endless time, desire can wander. When the deadline appears, lack takes its place—and suddenly the subject moves.

12/07/2026

Lacan would say this isn't really about traffic. It's about the ego.
Our ego depends on believing we are competent, rational, and in control. When reality threatens that image, something fascinating happens: we project our own shortcomings onto others. The "idiot driver" becomes the screen onto which we cast the incompetence we cannot tolerate in ourselves.
The road becomes a stage where our unconscious performs. The anger isn't only about what the other driver did—it's about defending the fragile image we have of ourselves.
The next time someone cuts you off, notice your reaction. And the next time you find yourself blaming everyone else, ask a more uncomfortable question:
What part of myself am I trying not to see?
The greatest blind spot isn't in the rear-view mirror. It's in the ego.

09/07/2026

Every impulse purchase asks the same question: What am I hoping this object will repair?
The most elegant investment is not in another possession, but in the courage to face what needs to be faced—and move forward as a competent, desiring human being rather than a consumer chasing a fantasy of completion.

07/07/2026

Saving a video of someone exercising is not the same as going for a run.
Desire is not sustained by images or plans but by an act. We often mistake the fantasy for the thing itself.
For Lacan, an act is a cut that changes the subject. It risks something in the Real rather than merely imagining it.
The unconscious is not transformed by bookmarks. It is transformed by acts.

02/07/2026

The animal does not demand recognition—it simply is. In its presence, the Symbolic order disappeares and for a moment, we touch the Real: a surge of jouissance that reminds us what we lost when we entered language. That 'precious energy'? It is the excess of life itself, the remainder that resists domestication by the ego’s mirror.

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Rua Pinheiro Chagas 48, 4
Lisbon
1050-179

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