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Originally Posted by octoberful
Isn't your therapist psychoanalytic?.
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He’s psychodynamic but he was in psychoanalysis 4 days/week for 5 years so that’s his background. Technically we are not doing psychoanalysis since he is not analytically trained and we meet just once/week, don’t lie down on a couch, etc. He has said multiple times that I’m very “analytic” and I keep forgetting to ask what he means by that. I assume it means I’d be a good psychoanalysis client, but not sure what to do with that comment since my therapist is not an analyst. Is he saying I should switch to psychoanalysis? Confusing.