2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
What is psychoanalysis?
First of all, psychoanalysis is a method of treatment. Therefore, the primary task of psychoanalysts as doctors is to relieve the patient's symptoms by freeing him from unnecessary doubts, unjustified feelings of guilt, painful self-accusations, false judgments and unreasonable impulses.
- The method of scientific observation and study of personality, and especially its desires, impulses, motives of actions, dreams, fantasies, early developmental trauma and emotional disorders.
- The system of scientific psychology. The observations and representations of psychoanalysis can be used to try to predict human behavior and the outcome of human relationships, such as marriage, social relationships, and parent-child relationships.
In addition, psychoanalysis is a kind of unique and unusual experience of interaction between the patient and the doctor, and in this case, the analysand and analyst.
"The method of treatment with the word" - called it himself Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
Z. Freud was the first physician who discovered that the so-called tensions are at the heart of the patient's personality structure. These tensions originate in early childhood, when a person is just beginning to get acquainted with this world, and they remain with us throughout life. Sigmund Freud was also one of the first to say that we manage our mental life not only consciously, but there are also unconscious influences and, moreover, stronger ones.
How is psychoanalysis done?
The process of psychoanalysis, consisting in the study and reorganization of the personality, is carried out so that the individual can keep his tensions more prudently and with the least difficulty until the time comes to remove them, and if the release of tensions is allowed or required by the situation, he could express them freely and without feeling. guilt.
Psychoanalysis strives towards these goals by studying the tensions of the unconscious, discovering ways to release tensions when possible, and bringing them, as far as possible, under the control of consciousness. To fully carry out this process, it should last at least a year and be 1 - 3 sessions per week for about an hour. Complete psychoanalysis is always a continuous process.
The unconscious must be made conscious. Sometimes for this the client is asked to lie on a couch, and the analyst sits in his head to be out of sight. Thanks to this, the client's psyche can work without being distracted: he does not see the doctor's face, he is not worried about the doctor's possible reactions to what he says. The flow of his thoughts is not disturbed, because if he knew what the analyst liked or did not like, he would, as a rule, regulate his statements in accordance with this.
Psychoanalytic technique employs the so-called method of free association.
The client is invited (or rather, this is his main task) to say everything that comes into his head at the moment.
Try not to subject this to the usual censorship of consciousness: consciousness, the ideal of the ego (politeness, shame, self-respect), a conscious conscience (religion, education, and other principles) and a conscious ego (a sense of order, validation, conscious striving for profit). The fact is that for the psychoanalytic process, the most important things are precisely those things that the patient would not talk about.
It is precisely those objects that seem insignificant, indecent, rude, bothersome, trivial or ridiculous to the patient that often attract the analyst's special attention.
In a state of free association, the patient's psyche is often overwhelmed with desires, feelings, reproaches, memories, fantasies, judgments and new points of view, all of which appear at first glance in complete disarray. However, despite the apparent confusion and incoherence, each statement and each gesture has its own meaning. Hour after hour, day after day, meanings and connections begin to emerge from the messy web of thoughts.
Over a long period, some central themes may gradually develop, referring to a number of dissatisfied from early childhood, long buried in the subconscious and inaccessible to conscious recognition of tensions, which form the basis of the patient's personality structure, the source of all his symptoms and associations. During the analysis, the patient may feel as if he is jumping from one object to another without any regularity and reason, and often he finds it difficult or not at all able to see the threads connecting them.
This is where the analyst's art is manifested: he reveals and indicates the tensions underlying these seemingly disparate associations, causing and connecting them together.
The purpose of the analysis is not to induce a feeling of well-being in the patient while under the supervision of a physician, but to enable him to cope with his problems independently of the physician for many years later in life. The patient comes to the analyst in search of understanding, not moral judgment.
The doctor remains neutral about the patient's interests, but this does not necessarily mean that he is heartless. The analysis does not make the patient dependent on the doctor. On the contrary, efforts are deliberately made to avoid this by analyzing and carefully eliminating this very connection (the relationship between the doctor and the patient) so that the patient becomes a free individual, independent and able to stand on his own two feet. This is the purpose of the analysis.
Who is psychoanalysis indicated for?
Psychoanalysis was originally developed primarily for the treatment of neuroses. Over time, it was discovered that it benefits not only the obvious neurotic, but many others as well. As for "normal" people, they are subject to psychoanalysis all the time.
Many well-balanced psychiatrists have been and are being analyzed for educational purposes.
Many social workers and psychologists also go through analysis to better understand people and to work with psychoanalysts to help others. Despite the costs and hardships, young people with limited incomes go for it, because most of these "normal" people see analysis as an excellent investment that will help them become smarter, happier and more productive in their jobs.
Everyone has unfulfilled tensions that have accumulated since infancy, and whether these tensions are openly expressed in neurotic ways or not, it is always useful to reorganize and, through analysis, partially remove the unsatisfied energy of the unconscious.
This is undoubtedly beneficial to those who must raise children.
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