Abstract

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy uses psychoanalytic principles in delivering psychotherapy which supports patients as well as informing them about themselves and the external world through psychoanalytic interpretations. Undergoing a psychoanalysis can be very stressful, and requires ego strength that allows assimilation of personal knowledge by the patient and its utilization within the personality. Classical psychoanalysis makes heavy demands on the analysand's, or patient's, stamina, and schizophrenic patients are not equipped to utilize it. However, with sufficient support they can be helped to undergo a psychoanalysis that applies the technique of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

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