Psychoanalysis: Helping People Around the World to Heal, to Change, and to Grow
While psychoanalysis began as a tool for relieving emotional suffering, it is also a method for learning about the mind as well as a theory of human development. Many do not realize the significant contribution that psychoanalysis has made to our everyday thinking. Psychoanalysis provides insight into a wide range of human activity, both in psychotherapy and in the world at large. In doing so, psychoanalysis continues to have a profound impact on many aspects of contemporary culture. A psychoanalyst can help people:
- Get relief from painful emotional problems
- Improve personal relationships
- Become more productive in the workplace
- Take more pleasure in life
- Prevent the past from interfering in the present
- Stop self-destructive patterns of behavior
- Gain greater control over their lives
- Unlock their creative potential
- Understand themselves and others around them
- Feel understood
- Feel secure in who they are and what they want
Adapted from "About Psychoanalysis," American Psychoanalytic Association 2004 (APsaA)
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