This form of treatment for emotional troubles was first developed by Sigmund Freud in the early part of this century. Many psychoanalysts have expanded on Freud's work and enlarged the range of problems that can be treated. New treatment techniques and insights into human behavior have also been developed. While I practice in a variety of modalities, including planned short term, and problem solving therapy, I find that there is no experience which matches the careful, patient study of oneself which psychoanalytic therapy permits. Ask anyone who has taken the opportunity.
People consider psychotherapy for a wide variety of reasons.
Some have vague complaints or dissatisfactions. Others have very specific symptoms that they want to correct. Consider Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Today, for most persons Psychoanalytic Therapy is the treatment of choice when the problem is a pattern of our character. Behavioral therapies, Cognitive therapies, and Medications have a very important role in the treatment of specific target complaints and symptoms, but when the difficulty is a life long pattern of one's character, then Psychoanalytic Therapy is the treatment of choice.