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Psychoanalytic therapy is a form of talk therapy based on Sigmund Freud's theories of psychoanalysis. The approach explores how the unconscious mind influences your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Specifically, it examines how your experiences (often from childhood) may be contributing to your current experience and actions. Psychoanalytic approaches to emotional disorders have advanced a great deal since Freud's time.
Freud described the unconscious as the reservoir of desires, thoughts, and memories that are below the surface of conscious awareness. He believed that these unconscious influences could often lead to psychological distress and disturbances.

What makes psychoanalytic therapy different from other forms of treatment? A review of the research comparing psychoanalytic approaches to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) identified seven features that set the psychoanalytic approach apart.2
  • Focuses on emotions. Where CBT is centered on cognition and behaviors, psychoanalytic therapy explores the full range of emotions that a patient is experiencing.
  • Explores avoidance. People often avoid certain feelings, thoughts, and situations they find distressing. Understanding what a client is avoiding can help both the psychoanalyst and the client understand why such avoidance comes into play.
  • Identifies recurring themes. Some people may be aware of their self-destructive behaviors but unable to stop them. Others may not be aware of these patterns and how they influence their behaviors.
  • Exploration of past experienced. Other therapies often focus more on the here-and-now, or how current thoughts and behaviors influence how a person functions. The psychoanalytic approach helps people explore their pasts and understand how it affects their present psychological difficulties. It can help patients shed the bonds of past experience to live more fully in the present.
  • Explores interpersonal relationships. Through the therapy process, people are able to explore their relationships with others, both current and past.
  • Emphasizes the therapeutic relationship. Because psychoanalytic therapy is so personal, the relationship between the psychoanalyst and the patient provides a unique opportunity to explore and reword relational patterns that emerge in the treatment relationship.
  • Free-flowing. Where other therapies are often highly structured and goal-oriented, psychoanalytic therapy allows the patient to explore freely. Patients are free to talk about fears, fantasies, desires, and dreams.
As with any approach to mental health treatment, psychoanalytic therapy can have its pluses and minuses. Before deciding on this approach, it's important to take these factors into account.
  • La thérapie psychanalytique peut être utilisée pour traiter un certain nombre de troubles psychologiques différents, notamment :
  • Anxiété
  • Dépression
  • Luttes émotionnelles ou traumatismes
  • Problèmes d'identité
  • Problèmes d'estime de soi
  • Affirmation de soi
  • Troubles psychosomatiques
  • Problèmes relationnels
  • Comportement autodestructeur
  • Problèmes sexuels
People undergoing psychoanalytic therapy often meet with their psychoanalyst at least once a week. They can remain in therapy for months or even years.
Psychoanalysts use a variety of techniques to gain insight into your behavior. Some of the more popular techniques include:
  • Dream interpretation: According to Freud, dream analysis is by far the most important psychoanalytic technique. He often referred to dreams as "the royal road to the unconscious." 1 Psychoanalysts may interpret dreams to get insight into the workings of your unconscious mind.
  • Free association: Free association is an exercise during which the psychoanalyst encourages you to freely share your thoughts. This can lead to the emergence of unexpected connections and memories.
  • Transference: Transference occurs when you project your feelings about another person onto the psychoanalyst. You'll then interact with them as if they were that other person. This technique can help your psychoanalyst understand how you interact with others.
Psychoanalysts spend a lot of time listening to people talk about their lives, which is why this method is often referred to as "the talking cure."

Une étude de l'efficacité des thérapies psychanalytiques à long terme a révélé des taux de réussite modérés à élevés pour réduire les symptômes d'une variété de psychopathologies.
Une revue d’études réalisée en 2021 a révélé que la thérapie psychanalytique à court terme entraînait des améliorations durables des symptômes somatiques, des symptômes dépressifs et des symptômes anxieux.

Les personnes qui reçoivent un traitement psychanalytique ont tendance à conserver ces acquis. La plupart continuent de s’améliorer même après la fin du traitement. D’un autre côté, les bénéfices des autres thérapies fondées sur des données probantes ont tendance à diminuer avec le temps.
Une revue de 2010 publiée dans l'American Psychologist a suggéré que la thérapie psychanalytique était aussi efficace que les autres thérapies fondées sur des preuves.


Le succès dépend souvent de la capacité à faire face à des expériences potentiellement stressantes ou déclenchantes. Même si certains critiques ont ridiculisé les taux de réussite de la thérapie psychanalytique, les recherches suggèrent que la thérapie psychanalytique à long et à court terme peut traiter efficacement toute une gamme de pathologies.3
La thérapie psychanalytique à long terme est généralement définie comme une durée d'un an ou de 50 séances. La thérapie psychanalytique à court terme, en revanche, est définie comme moins de 40 séances ou moins d'un an de traitement.


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