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Trevor Mazzucchelli, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Curtin University

What’s the difference between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis?

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Mention psychotherapy and many people picture a familiar movie scene: someone lying on a couch, talking about their childhood, while a therapist sits behind them taking notes.

That image comes largely from psychoanalysis. But it doesn’t represent most psychotherapy today. Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis aren’t really competing treatments.

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