Psychoanalysis

 
 
 

 

Psychoanalysis

 
Psychoanalysis emerged in 1900 with the publication of the book “The interpretation of dreams” by Sigmund Freud. Freud defined it as a general theory of mental functioning, a method of investigation and psychotherapeutic technique.

For Psychoanalysis no two patients are the same, even if their diagnosis is the same. Psychoanalysis treats the symptoms and consequent suffering by attempting to reorganise the personality structures where the pillars or foundations of the symptoms reside.

Psychoanalysis is distinguished from other forms of psychoanalytic psychotherapy essentially by its specific procedures, such as the use of a couch and the greater frequency of sessions, which facilitates the free association of thoughts and emotions and the appearance in the therapeutic relationship of the predominantly unconscious difficulties and constraints that lie at the basis of psychological suffering, so as to overcome them.

The acquisition of the skills to be a psychoanalyst requires complex theoretical-practical training carried out in companies accredited by the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), composed of associations of 45 countries distributed over all the continents.