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Explainer: what is psychoanalysis?

  • Written by Christine Brett Vickers, Honorary Research Fellow in History, La Trobe University
imagePsychoanalysis is based on the belief our behaviours have an underlying cause from earlier in life. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a way of treating longstanding psychological problems that is based on the belief behaviours have underlying drivers which may be unrecognised and unconscious.

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