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==Practice of Psychoanalysis==
The term "[[treatment]]" designates the [[practice]] of [[psychoanalysis]] -- as opposed to the [[theory]] of [[psychoanalysis]].
==Jacques Lacan==
Although the term was inherited by [[psychoanalysis]] from medicine, it has acquired a specific [[meaning]] in [[Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalytic theory]] which is quite different from the way it is understood in medicine.
==Aim of Treatment==
In particular, the aim of [[psychoanalytic treatment]] is not seen [[Lacan]] as "healing" or "curing" people in the sense of producing a perfectly healthy [[psyche]].
==Clinical Structures "Incurable"==
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]].
-----==Structural Progression====Analytic Process==
[[Lacan]] argues that the [[treatment]] is a process with a definite direction, a [[structural]] [[progress]]ion with a beginning, middle, and end.
===Beginning===
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]].
These 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 hypothesize about the [[clinical]] [[structure]] of the [[analysand]]. ------
===Middle===
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).
==Speech==
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]].
==Desire of the Analyst and Resistance==
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 (see [[resistance]]).
==Analyst==
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.
==See Also==
{{See}}
* [[Analysand]]
* [[Analyst]]
* [[Desire of the analyst]]
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* [[End of analysis]]
* [[Neurosis]]
* [[Perversion]]
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* [[Progress]]
* [[Psychoanalysis]]
* [[Psychosis]]
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* [[Resistance]]
* [[Speech]]
* [[Transference]]
{{Also}}
==References==
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Terms]]
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