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• n  a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud
  his physician recommended psychoanalysis

• How can psychoanalysis compete with that? Freud's methods may be intellectually exciting, but they're slow and largely unproven.
• Freud first used the term psychoanalysis in 1896, when he was already 40.
• Cognitive therapy is everything psychoanalysis isn't: simple, quick, practical, goal oriented.

• analysis
• depth psychology

News & Articles

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• Petunia ( 2013 )
  The most popular movies among NYTimes.com readers. As the members of an unconventional New York family attempt to deal with their relationships, brothers Charlie, Adrian and Michael find themselves unlearning everything the learned in psychoanalysis.
  June 28, 2013 - New York Times
• Emmy Hopeful - Vera Farmiga: 'Bates Motel'
  Two iconic cinematic monsters came to television this year, and while NBC's Hannibal made psychoanalysis an overt element of its story, A&E's Bates Motel required the audience to play armchair psychologist and engage in an incredibly timely conversation about what turns kids into killers. That question proved incredibly attractive to Bates Motel star Vera Farmiga, who was also tasked with ...
  June 27, 2013 - ET Online via omg!

Quotes

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• Woody Allen in Contactmusic.com
  Allen tells New York magazine, "People always tease me. They say, look at you, you went for so much psychoanalysis and you're so neurotic, you wind up marrying a girl so much younger than you. You don't like to go through tunnels. You don't like to...
• Benoît Hamon in guardian.co.uk
  Referring to Mr Sarkozy's comments on Thursday that he was preparing "the biggest reform of the social model since the liberation [of France]", a Socialist spokesman, Benoît Hamon, said: "In psychoanalysis, this is what you call the syndrome...
• Michael Bloomberg in New York Times Blogs (blog)
  Asked Tuesday afternoon why so many New Yorkers did not find him warm, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg told reporters, "I'm not big on psychoanalysis."