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====Psychoanalysis====The term "[[treatment]]" designates the ''[[practice]] '' of [[psychoanalysis]] -- as opposed to the ''[[theory]] '' of [[psychoanalysis]].

Although the 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 [[psychiatry|medicine]].

====Aim====In [[particular]], the [[end of analysis|aim ]] of [[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]] is not seen [[Lacan]] as to "healingheal" or "curingcure" people the [[analysand]], in the [[sense ]] of producing developing a perfectly healthy [[psyche]].

The [[clinical structureStructure|Clinical structures]]s of , such as [[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]].

====Analytic Process====The [[Lacantreatment]] argues that the is a [[treatmentprogress|process]] 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 ruleFundamental Rule]].

Following the initial consultation, a series of face-to-face preliminary interviews take [[place]].

Firstly, they # They enable a properly [[psychoanalytic]] [[symptom]] to be constituted in place of the vague collection of complaints often brought by the [[patient]]. # They allow [[time]] for the [[transference]] to develop. # 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]].

Secondly=====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, they allow out of the [[timeanalysand]] for 's field of [[vision]] (the couch is not used in the [[transferencetreatment]] to developof [[psychotic]] [[patient]]s).

ThirdlyAs he [[free associates]], they permit the [[analystanalysand]] works through the [[signifier]] to ascertain whether or not there is really a demand for s that have determined him in his [[psychoanalysishistory]], and also to hypothesize about is driven by the very [[clinicalprocess]] of [[structurespeech]] itself to articulate something of the his [[analysanddesire]].

------=====End===== After the preliminary interviews, the [[treatment]] This 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).  As he [[free associates]], the [[analysand]] works through the [[signifier]]s that have determined him in his [[historydynamic]], and is driven by the very process of which involves a [[speechconflict]] 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 (see [[resistance]]).