What does the Psychoanalytic Therapist do?
The major function of the psychoanalytic therapist is to listen carefully and attentively to the patient in order to understand him and facilitate communication. The therapist uses both intelligence and feelings to obtain verbal and nonverbal clues to the patient’s problems. The analyst must first understand these disguised communications and then transform them into information useful to the patient. The therapist may ask questions to help the patient share his thoughts and feelings comfortably.
