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The term "[[treatment]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[cure]]'') designates the [[practice]] -- as opposed to the [[theory]] -- of [[psychoanalysis]].
In particular, the aim of [[psychoanalytic treatment]] is not (Although to "cure" the term was inherited [[patient]]") (seen by [[psychoanalysisLacan]] from medicine, it has acquired a specific meaning as "healing" or "curing" people in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory which is quite different from the way it is understood in medicinesense of producing a perfectly healthy [[psyche]]). )
The [[clinical structure]]s of [[neurosis]], [[psychosis] and [[perversion]] are seen as essentialy "incurable," and the aim of [[analytic treatment]] is not simply to 'lead the [[cureanalysand]]' the to articulate his [[patienttruth]]. --
The [[clinical structure]]s of [[neurosis]], [[psychosis]] and [[perversion]] are seen as essentially 'incurable'.
The [[aim]] of [[treatment]] is to lead the [[analysand]] to articulate his [[truth]].
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[[Lacan]] argues that the [[treatment]] is a process with a definite direction, a [[structural]] [[progress]]ion with a beginning, middle, and end.
According to [[Lacan]], [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]] is a process with a definite direction, a [[structural]] [[progress]]ion with a beginning, middle and end.
According to [[Lacan]], [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]] is a process consisting of a beginning, middle and [[end of analysis|end]].
The beginning (or "point of entry into the analytic situation") is a contract (or '"pact'") between the [[analyst]] and the [[analysand]] - which includes the [[analysand]]'s agreement to abide by the [[fundamental rule]].
(The [[analysand]] agrees to abide by the [[fundamental rule]].)
Following the initial consultation, a series of face-to-face preliminary interviews take place.
(These preliminrary interviews have several aims.)
Firstly, they enable a properly [[psychoanalytic]] [[symptom]] to be constituted in place of the vague collection of complaints often brought by the [[patient]].
Thirdly, they permit the [[analyst]] to ascertain whether or not there is really a demand for [[psychoanalysis]], and also to hypothesise about the [[clinical structure]] of the [[analysand]].
-- After the preliminary interviews, the [[treatment]] is no longer conducted face to face, but with the [[analysand]] reclining on a couch while the [[analyst]] sits behind him, out of the [[analysand]]'s field of vision (the couch is not used in the [[treatment ]] of [[psychotic patients]] [[patient]]s).
As he [[free associates]], the [[analysand]] works through the [[signifier]]s that have determined him in his [[history]], and is driven by the very process of [[speech]] itself to articulate something of his [[desire]].
This is a dynamic process which involves a conflict between a force which drives the [[treatment]] on (see [[transference]], [[desire of the analyst]]) and an opposing force which blocks the process (seee see [[resistance]]). The [[analyst]]'s task is to direct this process (not to direct the [[patient]]), and to get the process going again when it gets stuck.
==References==
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:SexualityTreatment]]
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