These can sometimes be in the form of recognisable symptoms and at other times as troubling personality traits, difficulties in work and/or in love relationships, or disturbances in mood and self-esteem. Because these forces are unconscious, the advice of friends and family, the reading of self-help books, or even the most determined efforts of will, often fail to provide relief.

Psychoanalytic treatment can reveal how unconscious factors affect current relationships and patterns of behaviour. It also can trace them back to their historical origins and show how they have changed and developed over time. This awareness can help the individual to deal better with the realities of adult life. This is not just achieved by the insight of knowledge but through the process the analysand or patient undergoes in an analysis. In the course of intensive psychoanalytic treatment, the nature of the relationship which inevitably develops will have significant features deriving from the “internal world” of the patient and become available for experience and exploration by the patient and psychoanalyst together. It will become possible to understand many of these aspects more deeply and to work upon making meaningful and desirable changes.

Source:
http://www.sapsychoanalysis.org
https://www.ipa.world

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