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What Is It?

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a powerful approach to mental and emotional development having its roots in both psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic theory and practice.

In psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the therapist meets regularly with the client or patient once, twice, or more times a week over an extended period. The therapist makes themselves available in the appointments, listening carefully to the conscious and unconscious processes that evolve in their meeting, with a view to finding the ways they can be of most use to this individual in their therapy.