What are your thoughts on Psychoanalysis?

I think it is a valid treatment for some mental issues But I think it is often overused. Sources: My thoughts .

" There are many elements of truth in the things he came up with and today the whole enterprise is regarded as non-PC and is not nearly so popular at the beginning of the 21st century as it was in, say' 1950. Today we know a lot more about the neurochemistry and genetics of emotional illness and trying to take your head apart and put it back together again in a way that you like better has become more of a philosophical quest than a medical treatment. Someday this system of thought will be reexamined and rehabilitated as a method of phenomenological investigation of the emotional life of humans.

Most people who dismiss it completely have little knowledge of it. Sources: I am a psychiatrist .

1 edfoug, regarding your answer "A mighty but flawed system of thought":I am a psychiatrist too and I think psychoanalysis is very interesting and it does work (sometimes). I agree with you that it has flaws but that's true of all approaches. There is no treatment that works all the time for every patient.

Psychoanalysis is no different.

Edfoug, regarding your answer "A mighty but flawed system of thought":I am a psychiatrist too and I think psychoanalysis is very interesting and it does work (sometimes). I agree with you that it has flaws but that's true of all approaches. There is no treatment that works all the time for every patient.

Psychoanalysis is no different.

2 I can give a comment from personal experience. Psychoanalysis is not the ultimate solution to solving psychological problems. Psychoanalysis does not work on some problems like chronic anxiety.

Insights discovered in psychoanalysis do not insure improvement. I've found that drugs worked better than psychoanalysis. Let's face it, psychoanalysis is too time consuming and costly to be practical.

Having said that, I do believe that it would be a good thing for people to talk about their life problems in private to a professionally trained person once in a while.

I can give a comment from personal experience. Psychoanalysis is not the ultimate solution to solving psychological problems. Psychoanalysis does not work on some problems like chronic anxiety.

Insights discovered in psychoanalysis do not insure improvement. I've found that drugs worked better than psychoanalysis. Let's face it, psychoanalysis is too time consuming and costly to be practical.

Having said that, I do believe that it would be a good thing for people to talk about their life problems in private to a professionally trained person once in a while.

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I want to buy a book as a gift for a charity that looks after people with mental health issues. Any Ideas?

Is there any free mental health services in Delhi INDIA.

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