Editing Psychoanalysis (section)

===Traditional setting===
Psychoanalysts place large emphasis on experiences of [[early childhood]], and try to overcome [[Childhood amnesia|infantile amnesia]]. In traditional Freudian setting,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schafer |first=Roy |date=1994-01-01 |title=Commentary: Traditional Freudian and Kleinian Freudian analysis |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07351699409533998 |journal=Psychoanalytic Inquiry |volume=14 |issue=3 |pages=462–475 |doi=10.1080/07351699409533998 |issn=0735-1690|url-access=subscription }}</ref> the patient lies on a couch, and the analyst sits just behind or somehow out of sight. The patient should express all his thoughts, all secrets and dreams, including [[Free association (psychology)|free associations]] and [[Fantasy (psychology)|fantasies]]. In addition to its task of strengthening the ego with its ability to [[Dialectic|think dialectical]] – Freud's ''primacy of intellect'' –, therapy also aims to induce [[transference]]. The patient thus [[Psychological projection|projects]] his educated him mother and father as internalised in his superego since birth onto the analyst. As he once did as a baby and little child, he experiences again the feelings of helpless dependence, all the futile longing for love, anger, rage and urge for revenge on the failing parents, but now with the possibility of processing these contents that have shaped his persona.<ref name="FP">Chessick, Richard D. 2007. ''The Future of Psychoanalysis''. Albany: [[State University of New York|State University of New York Press]]. p. 125.</ref><ref name="RP">[[Erich Fromm|Fromm, Erich]]. 1992. ''The Revision of Psychoanalysis''. New York: Open Road. pp. 12–13. (points 1 to 6).</ref>

The term ''[[countertransference]]'' means that the analyst himself projects such content onto his patient; then he has an own open problem and has to go to his own analyst if he is not yet able to help himself due to inexperience.<ref name="HC">[[Alberto Stefana|Stefana, Alberto]]. 2017. ''History of Countertransference: From Freud to the British Object Relations School''. London: [[Routledge]]. {{ISBN|978-1138214613}}.</ref>

From the sum of what is shown and communicated, the analyst deduces unconscious conflicts with imposed traumas that are causing the patient's symptoms, his persona and character problems, and works out a [[diagnosis]]. This explanation of the origin of loss of mental health and the analytical processes as a whole confronts the patients ego with the pathological [[defence mechanism]]s, makes him aware of them as well as the instinctive contents of the id that have been repressed by them,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vaillant |first=George E. |date=1994 |title=Ego mechanisms of defense and personality psychopathology. |url=http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/0021-843X.103.1.44 |journal=Journal of Abnormal Psychology |language=en |volume=103 |issue=1 |pages=44–50 |doi=10.1037/0021-843X.103.1.44 |pmid=8040479 |issn=0021-843X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and thus helps him to better understand himself and the world in which he lives, was born and educated.