### medical procedure | surgical procedure | treatment | therapy:

Psychoanalysis
* Looks at Love.
* also treats women as deficient
  - uses imagination
* appears as a direct attack on the over-rated intellectual self upon the irrational.
* attempts to help patients resolve their inner conflicts.
* begins from the discovery and investigation of the dynamic unconscious.
* describes a particular cultural moment.
* does nothing to cure illnesses
  - study the effect of literary texts on people
* emphasises the importance of the unconscious.
* emphasizes a. learning and stimulus-response associations
  - that all adult problems' roots can be traced back to one's childhood
* exists through clinical practice.
* explains things.
* form of psychotherapy that explores the unconscious roots of emotional problems
  - therapy based off of Psychoanalytic theory
* has places
  - therapeutic effects, but psychoanalysis is much more than psychotherapy
* highly potent form of intensive psychotherapy.
* involves correcting childhood problems
  - long-term psychotherapy and counseling for patients
* is Freudian psychology
  - about the person
  - an illness that pretends to be a cure
* is an intensive form of psychotherapy that meets four to five times a week
  - therapy conducted as a collaboration between patient and therapist
  - on-going process that aims at sustaining the growth of the individual
  - analysises
  - as dead a science as alchemy
  - associated with the couch, the note pad and the silent listener
* is both a school of thought and a therapeutic modality
  - theory of the mind and a therapeutic method
  - confession without absolution
  - dialectical
  - first and foremost an art of interpreting
  - founded upon the denial of castration
  - impractical and ineffectual, going back to the past and ignoring present problems
  - more than a form of therapy
  - nothing to do with psycho therapy
  - the biggest absurditity since christianity
* is the most comprehensive form of treatment
  - treatment for emotional conflicts
  - expensive and time consuming brand of psychotherapy
  - neurosis of the psychoanalyst-and of the psychoanalytic critic
  - parent of all forms of insight-oriented psychotherapy
* looks to culture as informative of our deepest psychic levels.
* provides a theory of organization at the psychological level.
* research method.
* science - the science of the understanding the mind
  - conducted by lunatics for lunatics
* seeks meaning more than motive, experience more than causation
  - the sources of human motivation in the patient's interior life and past
* strives on making the unconscious more conscious.
* talking cure, but one that alters the conditions of normal discourse.
* tends to pay more attention to sexuality than to food intake.
* theory about the reproduction of kinship.
* uses word association in order to probe the mind of a patient.
* usually goes on for years.
* way of getting the answer no while being encouraged to clarify one's questions.
+ Abnormal psychology, Treatment, Psychoanalysis: Psychology
  * Psychoanalysis is a form of therapy based off of Psychoanalytic theory. This theory states that human behavior is controlled by unconscious forces such as instinct and that there is no such thing as free will. Many ideas found in the Psychoanalytic theory can be traced back to the famous psychologist Sigmund Freud. Techniques such as hypnosis are used to tap into the unconscious mind with the hopes that the source of the disturbance is found. Freud also believed dreams had hidden meanings, and often asked patients to record their dreams for analysis. Because of the lack of scientific evidence supporting most Freudian ideas, psychoanalysis is rarely used by clinical psychologists and has been replaced by more effective forms of therapy.

Psychodynamic therapy
* Psychodynamic therapies are long-term and intense, often going for several years.
* is less interactive than cognitive or behavioral therapies.