The term "[[treatment]]" (: [[Fr]]. ''[[cure]]'') designates the [[practice]] -- as opposed to the [[theory]] -- of [[psychoanalysis]].
(Although The term "[[treatment]]" designates the term was inherited by [[practice]] of [[psychoanalysis]] from medicine, it has acquired a specific meaning in -- as opposed to the [[Lacantheory]]ian of [[psychoanalytic theorypsychoanalysis]] which is quite different from the way it is understood in medicine.)
In particular, Although the aim of term was inherited by [[psychoanalytic treatmentpsychoanalysis]] is not (to "cure" the from medicine, it has acquired a specific [[patientmeaning]]") (seen by in [[Lacan]] as "healing" or "curing" people in the sense of producing a perfectly healthy ian [[psychepsychoanalytic theory]])which is quite different from the way it is understood in medicine.
The [[clinical structure]]s In particular, the aim of [[neurosispsychoanalytic treatment]], is not seen [[psychosisLacan] and [[perversion]] are seen as essentialy "incurable,healing" or "curing" and people in the aim sense of producing a perfectly healthy [[analytic treatment]] is simply to lead the [[analysand]] to articulate his [[truthpsyche]].
--The [[clinical structure]]s of [[neurosis]], [[psychosis] and [[perversion]] are seen as essentially "incurable," and the aim of [[analytic treatment]] is simply to lead the [[analysand]] to articulate his [[truth]].
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]]. -----
[[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 The 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 preliminary 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]].
Secondly, they allow [[time]] for the [[transference]] to develop.
Thirdly, they permit the [[analyst]] to ascertain whether or not there is really a demand for [[psychoanalysis]], and also to hypothesise hypothesize about the [[clinical ]] [[structure]] of the [[analysand]].
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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]] [[patient]]s).
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