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Psychoanalysis

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• Since psychological problems originate from childhood repressed impulses and conflicts, the aim of psychoanalysis is to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness where the patient can deal with them

  • Focus on expression of emotion
  • Exploration of distressing experience
  • Identification of recurring themes
  • Discussion of development
  • Focus on interpersonal relations
  • Focus on the therapy relationship
  • Exploration of fantasy life
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Psychodynamic psychotherapy

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Is a form of depth psychology, the primary focus of which is to reveal the unconscious content of a client’s psyche in an effort to alleviate psychic tension.

In this way, it is similar to psychoanalysis