Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis first emerged in 1900 with the publication of “The interpretation of dreams” by Sigmund Freud. Freud defined this as the general theory of mental functioning, a research methodology and a psychotherapeutic technique.
 
In psychoanalysis, no two patients are the same even if their diagnoses are. This treats the symptoms and the consequent suffering through the attempt to reorganise the personality structures that contain the pillars and origins of the aforementioned symptoms.
 
Therefore, this field stands out from the other forms of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy essentially due to the specific procedures, such as the usage of a divan and the greater frequency of sessions, which facilitates the free association of thinking and emotions. Hence, therapeutic relationships may elicit the predominantly subconscious difficulties and obstacles that are at the core of our psychiatric suffering and to thereby enable them to be overcome.

This fosters the establishment of a new empathic relationship that enables the reconsolidation of new and healthier relational patterns.
 
Acquiring the skills to become a psychoanalyst requires theoretical-practical training undertaken in firms accredited by the IPA (International Psychoanalytic Association) made up of 45 member states spread across every continent.