Psychotherapy

 
 
 

 

Psychotherapy

 
Psychanalytic psychotherapy is one of the routes of access to mental functioning, opening the door to self-knowledge and understanding of psychological and psychosomatic symptoms, and their treatment. This can be used alone or combined with other therapeutic methods, such as psychopharmacology.

Psychoanalytic psychology includes various types: individual psychotherapy, psychanalysis, group analytic psychotherapy, group analysis. Its structural foundations are: the importance of Relationship and Empathy in the development of the personality and in therapy; the importance of unconscious/non-conscious phenomena in Human Beings, in relations, in Groups.
While the founder of Psychoanalysis is Freud, many other investigators have contributed to the development of individual and group psychotherapy, supported by inputs from neuroscience, paediatrics, research on child development, and many other areas.

Analytic psychotherapy uses a technique mediated by an empathic therapeutic relationship which tends to explore the past, so as to understand the present, releasing the subject from imprisoning ghosts, enabling the development of individual abilities and construction of a freer and more enjoyable future.

Group analytic psychotherapy and group analysis also use the dynamic benefits of the joint gathering of subjects to comprehend and treat each individual. Being useful, being similar to the others and belonging to a protected environment are conditions that, just in themselves, reduce the feelings of guilt, shame, inferiority, that underlie a large part of the suffering of Human Beings. The groups are “halls of mirrors” where our own image and that of others becomes clearer, where we observe and are observed, with more realistic images of ourselves and others appearing, new perspectives and insights emerging which pave the way for the development of creativity and autonomy.

The exercise of analytic psychotherapist duties and respective clinical practice require complex and demanding training in specific companies.