NUCC taxonomy code
Psychoanalysis Psychologist
103TP0814X
- Grouping
- Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers
- Classification
- Psychologist
- Specialization
- Psychoanalysis
Definition
A psychologist whose specialty is distinguished from other specialties by its body of knowledge and its intensive treatment approaches. It aims at structural changes and modifications of a person's personality. Psychoanalysis promotes awareness of unconscious, maladaptive and habitually recurrent patterns of emotion and behavior, allowing previously unconscious aspects of the self to become integrated and promoting optimal functioning, healing and creative expression.
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