| Psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be helpful for people who have a wide range of emotional or relationship difficulties because it is not a treatment aimed at specific disorders or conditions. It can also be useful in addition to other treatment methods.
For example, cognitive behavioural therapy can be aimed at reducing specific symptoms, such as panic attacks, whilst psychoanalytic psychotherapy can open up an inquiry as to the original source of the emotional upset or disturbance and how it is maintained in the present.
People who undergo psychoanalytic psychotherapy might have active symptoms of depression or anxiety, or they might have relationship difficulties. They might also be people who want to open up an inquiry into their internal world to understand themselves better and find ways to relate to other people more skilfully.
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