What is pyschoanalysis?
The old school therapy is called analysis, psychoanalysis. And essentially that's the one that they used to do on Bob Newhart where, in the very old school you would be laying down on a couch and talking and the therapist would be sitting behind you, not even interacting with you, and just sorting of allowing you to identify the issues that you were wanting to deal with and as you sort of talked and outlouded those things, you would gain insight and you would purge whatever the dynamics were that had created the blocks or the concerns in the first place. Most of us don't typically do strict psychoanalysis, although we use those theories as a way to be more interactive and understand the dynamics of development, but they add now things like Gestalt therapy, which is a way to work through issues that identify a conflict from within. It's more like 70s where you'd be hitting pillows and talking to chairs and trying to really identify that there is a usually a conflict going on within a person. And if you can figure out what those two pieces are and what they both want for the individual, they, you have a way to be more overtly aware of the problem and can come to an understanding and reach a resolution differently than if it's just a conflict going on in your head.
