Psychoanalysis is a comprehensive treatment for many psychological and emotional difficulties. It enables people to become aware of inner forces that affect life and helps master those inner forces that are out of conscious control. Think of it like peeling back the layers of an onion, and with each layer the causes and significance of our symptoms become more and more evident and may eventually disappear as the client learns how to sit with, and manage their internal world.
Psychoanalysis refers to a set of psychological psychotherapy theories and therapeutic methods which fundamentally view psychological issues as rooted in the unconscious mind. Accordingly, manifest symptoms (i.e., undesirable or dysfunctional thoughts, behaviours, and other defensive mechanisms) are the result of hidden factors, such as unresolved issues and traumatic experiences during developmental years. In response to traumatic early life experiences, individuals may learn maladaptive defence mechanisms, unconsciously triggered by scenarios in their environment which are negatively attached to their repressed conflict.
Perhaps the key distinguishing feature from other talk therapies, psychoanalysis aims to bring the repressed conflict from the unconscious into consciousness, where the patient can begin to address and process it. This is known as insight. By focusing more on the unconscious reasons that trigger problematic behaviours, as opposed to targeting manifest symptoms through behaviour change, psychoanalysis aims to uncover the psychological ‘roots’ of the problem. It is part of the human condition to develop defence mechanisms. These range from denial to projection and rationalisation; such behaviour is influenced by unconscious thought, which, once identified, addressed, and processed, can reduce or resolve defence mechanisms.
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