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Psychoanalytic Approach To Counselling in Points
- Psychoanalytic therapy is a form of talk therapy based on Sigmund Freud’s theories of psychoanalysis.
- The approach explores how the unconscious mind influences our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.
- The main target of psychoanalytic therapy is to bring unconscious material into consciousness.
- It guides and helps the individual to become less controlled by biological drives.
- The goal of psychoanalytic therapy is to help people identify self-limiting patterns, heal from past experiences, and gain insight into how their unconscious mind influences their behaviour.
- Conceptualizing clients through a contemporary psychoanalytic lens can provide counsellors with a deep understanding of the past and present factors that are shaping people’s lives.
- This approach illuminates how adaptations formed during childhood can present as dysfunctional behaviours or cognitions in adulthood.
