The second distinguishing characteristic of psychoanalytic therapy, after its rooting of the symptoms of emotional distress in the history of our personal lives, is that it considers the human mind as a place of conflicts between different wishes and drives, and it treats the symptoms of emotional suffering as expressions of these underlying conflicts. Life…

On the relation between Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Therapy

All modern psychotherapy derives ultimately from the work of Sigmund Freud.