Question

1. A good friend of yours is asking you whether she/he should undergo psychoanalysis or client-centered therapy. Which factors would you consider before answering her/him, and what would be your final recommendation based on these factors? (write 400 words and as you are writing and what would suggest so answer properly)

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Answer 1

He or she should go for Psychoanalysis or client-centered therapy? Following are the factors to be considered before answerig this question.

First step, we need to understand what is Psychoanalysis and client-centered therapy

Client-centered therapy : It's an approach towards counseling, wherein client decides direction of therapy. Therapiest helps client to increase insightful thinking towards self-understanding. In this process, client directs their own development and moves at their own pace.

Psychoanalysis: According to Sigmund Freud therapiest focuses on offering interpretations about client's unconscious conflicts that lead to client's trouble.

Follwing are the points needed to be considered before choosing between Psychoanalysis and client-centred therapy:

1. Client- centred therapy deals with client's insight about his/her own self-image, self-understanding. In contrast, Psychoanalysis deals with unconscious, which means , experiences which are beyond client's awareness.

2. Client-centred therapy works towards strengthening person's relation ship with themselves, his or her relationships, society and environment.  Psychoanalysis works towards strengthening the clien's relationship with her or her own unconscious thoughts, experiences.

3. Therapiest's way of work: Client-centred therapiest's relationship with their clients influences client's decision making, coping strategies, modification of behavior and thoughts. Psychoanalysts's relationship with client reorganizes the way client relate his/herself to body with all human qualities.

4. When client's have conflicting desires and motivations, they remain stucked even when given support and different ways of thinking, client-centred therapy. In such cases Psychoanalysis is useful, because change needs being aware about the reason behind pain. Sometimes, client doesn't want to change. In this case psychoanalysis offers a way to approach the unconscious factors that support person's tendency to stuck in their difficulties, it is called as analysis of resistances in Psychoanalysis.

5. Psychoanalysts are first trained as psychotherapiest (such as client-centered therapiest). Psychoanalytic training takes minimum 5 years of duration.

6. People who have not been helped by Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis might make difference.

Final recommendation based on these factors:

I would like to suggest the friend to know first about the intensity and nature of the problem they are facing in their life. Definitly for him/her intensity would be highest but logically he/she needs to find out what sort of maladjustments happening in their life due to the problem.

Understanding nature of the problem is also important, which will be based on consequences happening in the life due to the problem. He or she needs to identify the nature through knowing, the basic reason behind the problem. Whether a person wants to move ahead, come out of it my making changes or not.

Above mentioned all the factors are important to decide the therapy.