Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is the study of how a person structures their unconscious. This proceeds by establishing a two person relationship in a very controlled setting in which to study the events that transpire when the therapist, a person trained in special sensitivity to other people and possessing a deep contact with their own unconscious, limits their activity (as much as possible) to interpretation of the transference. These interpretations are hypotheses whose validity the therapist tests by predictive means and whose accuracy and complexity he/she augments by serial approximation.
Adapted from “Sexual States of Mind” by Donald Meltzer 1973 p.11
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