Editing Psychotherapy (section)

=== Insight-oriented ===
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[[Insight-oriented psychotherapy|Insight-oriented psychotherapies]] focus on revealing or interpreting [[unconsciousness|unconscious]] processes. Most commonly referring to [[psychodynamic therapy]], of which [[psychoanalysis]] is the oldest and most intensive form, these applications of [[depth psychology]] encourage the verbalization of all the patient's thoughts, including [[Free association (psychology)|free associations]], fantasies, and dreams, from which the analyst formulates the nature of the past and present unconscious conflicts which are causing the patient's symptoms and character problems.

There are six main schools of psychoanalysis, which all influenced psychodynamic theory:<ref>[http://psychcentral.com/lib/psychodynamic-therapy/ Psychodynamic Therapy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722084213/http://psychcentral.com/lib/psychodynamic-therapy/ |date=22 July 2015 }} J. Haggerty, PsychCentral, 2013</ref> Freudian, [[ego psychology]], [[object relations theory]], [[self psychology]], [[interpersonal psychoanalysis]],<ref>Sullivan, H. S. (1953) ''The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry''. New York: Norton</ref> and [[relational psychoanalysis]].<ref>Mitchell, S. (1988) ''Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.</ref> Techniques for analytic [[group therapy]] have also developed.