I also wanted to comment a bit more on psychoanalysis/psychoanalytic approach.

Although it is typically defined in terms of a frame (e.g. blank slate, using the couch, frequent sessions, expecting to schedule vacations etc) and the frame is an important part, I don't think this is a defining feature. There is something else that is much more important, so that if you take this something else away and only the frame remains then there is really nothing analytic left. I think public view of the definition in terms of the frame exists because these are the visible parts - this other something is not really visible, but if I would have to define it then perhaps right now I would say that this expresses itself in few things.

1) Being very patient. Here a also mean the suspension of the eagerness to go along with the more active and attractive part of the patient (the presenting part in the half-patient in the current context). The T's task is to create a representation in his mind about the whole patient, including also those parts that are missing from the treatment and that present themselves precisely through the lack of being present.

2) The ability to tolerate and "digest" difficult and intolerable feeling states, with non-judgement, curiosity and perhaps benevolence (I don't want to use the word "friendliness" because that already assumes some polarity and blocks the way for the patient feely freely unfriendly or even hostile when needed), without the need to throw these feelings back to the patient too quickly, prematurely.

If those things (and maybe something else that I cannot articulate right now) are present then all these frame components will have their natural role and they don't define the treatment.

For instance, I find it very dangerous when a T, who is not trained analytically but who likes this approach, tries to mimic the blank slate technique. I don't really know how this technique was used by US analysts in 50s or 60s and I only have experience in analysts trained in Europe (basically contemporary British school), but the blank slate and use of silence are not things in themselves but techniques to use when appropriate and not to use when inappropriate. This requires the ability to make an informed judgment by the T if and when it is appropriate (i.e. it helps to further the treatment for the patient). If the patient does not tolerate it (i.e. tends to regress too much) then it is not appropriate and should not be used.

Btw, my T announces his vacations in the beginning of the year and although he does not expect me to take my vacations at the same time, he does expect me to pay when I decide to go on holiday on any other time. So in that sense he is "old-school". But really, I don't perceive it as any problem because this is just one part of the frame and not the defining feature of our work. Besides, I think this vacation thingy came originally from middle Europe anyway where people, at least those who can choose, all tend to take their vacation in July or August. In my country, majority of people have vacation in July, thus it is really a no-brainer to synchronise our vacations. I would understand that it would be weird if my T would decide to take his vacation let's say in February and work in July and would expect me to do the same.