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Individuals are often
unaware of many of the factors that determine their emotions and
behaviours.
Unhappiness, difficulties
in work or love, self esteem, body image, and illness may be influenced
by the unconscious.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
demonstrates how unconscious agents affect current relationships
and impinge on one's life creating automatic and destructive patterns.
The goal of treatment
is an increased awareness of the sources of one's emotional conflicts
and problems that may constrict one's lifestyle. With insight,
and understanding one can have an enriched, balanced and full
life.
During psychoanalytic
psychotherapy through the exploration of feelings, memories, dreams,
and unconscious ideas the individual more clearly understands
their experience of self. The therapist helps elucidate repetitive
patterns, understand historical development, and talk about difficult
topics.
The individual wrestles
repeatedly with the feelings and insights that emerge, from different
angles. The collaborative efforts of client and therapist modify
difficult life patterns and incapacitating symptoms, expanding
the freedom to work and to love. Eventually, the patient’s
behaviour, relationships, sense of self, and life, can change
in deep and abiding ways.
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