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International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine Research

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Article Open Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/ijcemr.2024.04.023

Case Conceptualization: Psychoanalytic Therapy

Yanyi Hu

Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

*Corresponding author: Yanyi Hu

Published: May 27,2024

Abstract

Counseling psychologists interact with clients from all walks of life who are dealing with a myriad of mental disorders. Their professional mandate is to examine individual cases and employ a therapeutic approach that can help the client recover from mental distress. This is the main reason why patients facing distressing issues in their lives seek help from counseling professionals. Even so, the ability to determine the best therapy for a specific client is what sets one psychologist apart from another. Overall, the best practice is to diagnose the case and connect it to psychological theories that have been tested and proven effective in specific scenarios. Patients contribute their unique personalities, abilities, and views of the world in psychotherapy. As such, the scope of this paper is to assess the case scenario provided and come up with an effective intervention based on psychoanalysis, one of the most common therapeutic approaches in counseling psychology.

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How to cite this paper

Case Conceptualization: Psychoanalytic Therapy

How to cite this paper: Yanyi Hu. (2024) Case Conceptualization: Psychoanalytic Therapy. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine Research8(2), 309-313.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/ijcemr.2024.04.023