"Freudian psychoanalysis refers to a specific type of treatment in which the "analysand" (analytic patient) verbalizes thoughts, including free associations, fantasies, and dreams, from which the analyst formulates the unconscious conflicts causing the patient's symptoms and character problems, and interprets them for the patient to create insight for resolution of the problems." - Wikipedia
It seems to me that psychoanalysts are little more than story tellers. The phrase "formulating unconscious conflicts" seems synonymous to "making things up", which means to me that these therapists make up reasons for their patients to continue going to sessions and thus continuing their payment. Psychoanalysis might not uncover real problems, but a positive might be that the analysand finds themselves in a position where they can talk comfortably about their lives and hope to recieve comforting advice and insight. Ignorance is bliss.
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Hmm. You seem to feel some hostility towards the therapists. Tell me about this hostility. What does this feeling remind you of?
It's the feeling of hollowness. I'm not sure how to convey this, but when I have sat down with therapists, I can't block out the part of my mind that tells me they are only there to earn a paycheck, not to listen to me. i figure that whenever you pay someone to listen, all you are doing is satisfying a 9 to 5. You never get reall communication.
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