Work with Neeshee Pandit
Psychoanalyst | Acupuncturist | Astrologer
Neeshee Pandit works in the tradition of the scholar-physician—the healer whose clinical practice is inseparable from philosophical inquiry, poetics, and spiritual life. Neeshee sees the clinic as an invitation to a relational process that moves through lines of treatment. He views treatment as an assemblage of modalities that function collectively in a therapeutic container. Neeshee views the healing process as a co-constructive and collaborative process. When you work with Neeshee, you enter a field where multiplicities move.
Five-Element Acupuncture
From China to France
Neeshee's acupuncture practice is rooted in the French and Chinese classical tradition. When George Soulié de Morant brought Chinese medicine to France in the early twentieth century, he established a lineage of energetic meridian therapy that preserved classical streams of acupuncture at a time when China itself was moving toward a standardized, biomedically inflected form (“TCM”). What became known in the West as “five-element acupuncture” is this French classical tradition finding its English-language form through J.R. Worsley. Neeshee thus locates himself in the lineage of “French Traditional Acupuncture”, inheriting a transmission that is as much French as it is Chinese.
Neeshee views the meridian network as a symbolic order of the psyche and an esoteric anatomy of the body—a rhizomatic structure where psyche and soma form new connections. Acupuncture becomes a puncture in a rhizome and a tonification of desiring-flows. Rather than opposing symptoms, his approach seeks to understand their causative factors and re-discover their vital significance.
His treatment style is gentle, minimum-optimum, and bespoken to each person. He works primarily in a non-retentive style of needling, where the needle is removed after the puncture, and uses direct cone moxibustion (chinetskyu) for its gentle, rejuvenating heat. He integrates Ayurvedic and Tibetan medical diagnosis alongside Chinese acupuncture, drawing on diverse sources for dietary recommendations, lifestyle counseling, and herbal medicine.
Psychoanalysis & Schizoanalysis
A Clinic of the Real
Psychoanalysis begins when a person expresses their desire to initiate an analysis. It is not a form of psychotherapy or symptom treatment—it is an exploratory mode of discourse in which the unconscious is freely investigated through speech. Jacques Lacan, the Parisian psychoanalyst who declared a return to Freud, proposed that the unconscious is structured like a language and thus gave the talking cure its fullest theoretical ground. The schizoanalytic tradition developed by Félix Guattari at the La Borde clinic extends this framework into the terrain of desire, flow, and creativity.
Neeshee practices with a Lacanian and schizoanalytic orientation that also inquires into the intersections between Eastern and Western thought. He proposes that psychoanalysis can be understood in relation to the Vedantic practice of inquiry via Upanishadic discourse in the mahavakya that loosens the unconscious and returns the subject to itself. Analysis is thus a sacred art: the analyst functions as confidante, interlocutor, and co-investigator of the real.
Sessions begin with face-to-face interviews before moving to the couch. Free association—the speaking of whatever comes to mind—is the primary method. Frequency, duration, and economic exchange are determined in each unique case.
Neeshee offers analysis in person in Boulder and via Zoom globally. All are welcome.