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| Barbara Burrows | |
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Who Can Benefit from Psychoanalysis? |
Psychoanalysis
is a method of treatment for people who have achieved a sufficiently
stable lifestyle to allow them to meet the requirements of treatment. |
| People who have achieved important satisfactions in work, relationships
or special interests are good candidates for psychoanalysis. Despite these achievements, a person may still
have significant symptoms that may include depression, anxiety, powerful anger, sexual
incapacities or physical symptoms without any demonstrable underlying
physical cause. One person may be plagued by private rituals, repetitive
thoughts or compulsions; another might live a constricted lonely life.
Another still may have difficulty trusting due to early trauma. People come
to analysis for help with repeated failures in work or love brought
about not by chance but rather self-destructive behaviour patterns
over which they have little control. Some seek analytic treatment for
help from restrictive patterns that inhibit pleasure; others when alternate approaches have offered only temporary help. Whatever the
problem, a thorough evaluation is required to determine whether psychoanalysis
is properly indicated. (Adapted from information at Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute) |