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Originally Posted by Lrad123
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.
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The therapy he did is a large part of training to be analyst, so I'd be suprised if he is not. It's really the training (and therapist choice on how to practice) the makes the therapy psychoanalytic rather than lying on the coach. The concepts are operationalized regardless of whether its conventional psychoanalysis or psychodynamic therapy, both of which are psychoanalytic if that is the therapist's orientation
It's the therapist that makes the difference. The modality referred to as psychodynamic is otherwise diluted and practiced in all different ways that makes it more of a generic concept.
It sounds like he was making a comment about the way you think but who knows.