Psychoanalysis remains one of the most effective treatments for psychological and existential problems. Psychoanalysis is more of a serious commitment than psychotherapy because it requires  several sessions per week. Taking the time and using the intensity of more frequent sessions allow for a more encompassing understanding of the self.  This intensive treatment may make it more likely that a person will undergo lasting change and resolve problems in various areas of life.

Psychoanalysis helps individuals develop the capacity to endure ordinary everyday sadness: Treatment will draw you deeper and deeper into a confrontation with the parts of your self,  exploring how unconscious factors affect present relationships. The treatment traces theses patterns back to their origins, considers how they have changed and shifted over time, and helps the individual to cope better with the realities of their current life.

Analysis can be viewed as an intimate partnership, in the course of which the patient becomes aware of the underlying sources of his or her difficulties, not simply intellectually but emotionally as well – in part by re-experiencing them with the analyst.