Why do people turn to a psychoanalyst?
Psychoanalysis is the most profound method of studying the human psyche, which has become the basis of modern psychotherapy. It allows us to identify, explore, and transform the individual psyche, as well as explain mass processes in society.
What most often brings people to a psychoanalytic office is suffering, the realization that something is wrong, and the desire to change it all.
The most common reasons for seeking help from a psychoanalyst are depression, anxiety and fear, self-doubt, problems in relationships with loved ones, difficulties in establishing new relationships, sexual difficulties, recurring negative situations, obsessive thoughts, etc.
Psychoanalysis of adults
Modern trends in human sciences and medicine strive to objectify the human being, treating him as a set of behavioral reactions, neurons, secretion of chemicals, a brain-machine.
Psychoanalysis takes a different position. It is a search for the truth of the subject, not an attempt to objectify this truth by imposing it on the subject. The uniqueness of psychoanalysis lies in upholding such a position.
Psychoanalysis is a method of clinical work aimed at exploring the unconscious, understanding the subject, and transforming his or her mental world.
It is a method of working with mental suffering through understanding and awareness of unconscious processes and their interconnections.
Psychoanalysis of children and adolescents
Children come to analysis with specific problems and symptoms. From the point of view of psychoanalysis, all these symptoms are due to individual history and are not universal. But we can talk about typical symptomatic manifestations of the subjective position that the child occupies in the family situation or in educational institutions, where the child spends most of his life. This is the cultural space that makes demands on the child, that is, the social and sexual demands that are made on the child make him vulnerable, unprotected, which can be expressed in typical manifestations characteristic of childhood: developmental difficulties, phobias, enuresis, encopresis, speech disorders, mutisms, elective mutisms, school failures, etc. At the same time, the child does not come to analysis of his own free will or because he wants to become an analyst, as is sometimes the case with adults. The child is brought by his parents.
In this case, can we speak of pure psychoanalysis or of some kind of psychotherapeutic use of psychoanalysis? However we perceive it, there is a certain ethical position of the analyst to which any therapeutic goal in psychoanalysis is subject. In other words, psychoanalytic practice makes it possible to distinguish between the request, between what is expressed in the complaint, and the symptom itself. This is possible only if we take into account the difference between desire, request and demand.
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Psychoanalysis today
Today, psychoanalysis is not only a therapeutic practice, but also an interdisciplinary science that combines psychology, medicine, philosophy, and cultural studies.