Because a central goal of the therapist is to help the patient understand the relationships between present symptoms and repressed conflicts, psychodynamic therapy is often called

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Psychodynamic therapy focuses on increasing the patient's awareness of unconscious processes and how these processes affect their current behavior. This form of therapy aims to help the patient gain insight into their problems, hence it is often referred to as insight therapy.  From this perspective, therapy succeeds and the patient recovers when insights release the patient from the repression established in early childhood.

Because a Central Goal of the Therapist Is to Help