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Beba
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What's the difference between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis?

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    psychotherapy - the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.

    psychoanalysis- a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes

    Psychoanalysis is a method of psychotherapy , one of the many attempts to cure the psychological problem .

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Difference Between Psychoanalysis And Psychotherapy

  • Froggy
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    In simplest terms -

    Psycho - analysis = is to identify a mental problem.

    Psycho - therapy = is the treatment of the problem.

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