Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy focus on the unconscious and believes it influences human behavior. It is believed that a person is driven by aggressive and sexual impulses. It focus mainly on the first six years of human life and how the events of this time period determines later personality. Repressed conflicts from childhood lead to personality problems later in life. Psychotherapist believe that the unconscious motives along with unresolved conflicts lead to maladapted behavior.
Sexual impulses return.
Inadequate resolution of any of these stages lead to flawed personality development. The client with the therapist help will make repressed conflicts conscious, making the unconscious conscious. Making this conflicts conscious to the client will help them in working through them, awareness. Psychotherapy is not useful in clients that are self-centered, impulsive, or severely psychotic. The therapist should have extensive training and expense.