Psychoanalysis Vs Cognitive Therapy

There are few similarities and a variety differences between psychoanalysis and cognitive therapy. Psychoanalysis therapy tends to be expensive, long and has a goal of releasing unconscious feelings to reduce the person’s power over their controlled behaviors. Cognitive therapy teaches people to adapt to their dysfunctional cognitions about the environment and themselves. They both improve well-being by using a therapeutic relationship that enables a healthy coping mechanism for clients who are experiencing psychological pain and distress in their lives. Psychoanalysis therapy tends to differ from cognitive therapy because it has about five sessions a week over several years, whereas cognitive therapy is short and adaptive with twenty sessions.