The term 'treatment' (cure) designates the practice of {{Top}}[[psychoanalysiscure]] as opposed to the theory of psychoanalysis. {{Bottom}}
Although ====Psychoanalysis====The term "[[treatment]]" designates the term was inherited by ''[[practice]]'' of [[psychoanalysis from medicine, it has acquired a specific meaning in Lacanian psychoanalytic ]] -- as opposed to the ''[[theory which is quite different from the way it is understood in medicine]]'' of [[psychoanalysis]].
In particular, The term has a specific [[meaning]] in [[psychoanalytic theory]] which is quite different from the aim of psycho-analytic treatment way it is not seen by Lacan as 'healing' or 'curing' people [[understood]] in thesense of producing a perfectly healthy psyche[[psychiatry|medicine]].
The clinical structures of neurosis, psychosis and perversion are seen as essentially 'incurable'====Aim====In [[particular]], and the [[end of analysis|aim ]] of analytic [[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment ]] is simply not to lead "heal" or "cure" the [[analysand to articulate his truth]], in the [[sense]] of developing a perfectly healthy [[psyche]].
Lacan argues that the treatment is a process with a definite direction[[Structure|Clinical structures]], a structural progression with a beginningsuch as [[neurosis]], middle [[psychosis]] and end (see [[end of analysisperversion]])are essentially "incurable."
The beginning, or 'point [[end of entry into the analytic situation', analysis|aim]] of [[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]] is a contract, or'pact', between analyst and analysand which includes to lead the [[analysand's agreement ]] to abide by the fundamental rulearticulate this [[truth]].
Following the initial consultation====Analytic Process====The [[treatment]] is a [[progress|process]] with a definite direction, a series of face-to-face preliminary interviews take place''[[structural]] [[progress]]ion'' with a beginning, middle, and end.
These preliminary interviews have several aims=====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]].
FirstlyFollowing the initial consultation, they enable a properly psychoanalyticsymptom series of face-to be constituted in -face preliminary interviews take [[place of the vague collection of complaints oftenbrought by the patient]].
Secondly, they allow time for the transference todevelopThese preliminary interviews have several aims.
Thirdly, 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 isreally a [[demand ]] for [[psychoanalysis]], and also to hypothesise 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).
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]].
After the preliminary interviews, =====End=====This is a [[dynamic]] process which involves a [[conflict]] between a force which [[drives]] the [[treatment is no longer conducted face to face]] on (see [[transference]], but with the analysand reclining on a couch while [[desire of the analyst sits behind him, out of ]]) and an opposing force which blocks the analysand's field of vision process (the couch is not used in the treatment of psychotic patientssee [[resistance]]).
As he free associates, The [[analyst]]'s task is to direct this process (not to direct the analysand works through the signifiers that have determined him in his history[[patient]]), and is driven by to get the very process of speech itself to articulate something of his desiregoing again when it gets stuck.
This is a dynamic process which involves a conflict between a force which drives the treatment on (see ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Analysand]]* [[transferenceAnalyst]], * [[desire Desire of the analyst]]) and an opposing force which blocks the process (seee ||* [[End of analysis]]* [[Neurosis]]* [[Perversion]]||* [[Progress]]* [[Psychoanalysis]]* [[Psychosis]]||* [[Resistance]]* [[Speech]]* [[resistanceTransference]]). {{Also}}
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==<references/>
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