Psychoanalytic Therapy: Treatment Beyond Symptoms

 I want to say more about the approach to therapy that seeks to understand that your symptoms are not really the problem. Granted symptoms hurt and we suffer from them. But this approach I am talking about sees your symptoms as indeed symptoms of a deeper problem. And this approach tries to get to the roots of your problems that are causing your symptoms. This Psychodynamic understanding of your symptoms requires a deeper Psychodynamic or Psychoanalytic diagnosis. And for this deeper diagnosis of what lies beneath your symptoms and is causing them psychoanalytic therapists turn to their analytic knowledge and experience.