Psychoanalytic Therapy And How It Can Help You Deal With Anxiety
Psychoanalytic therapy works on a long term basis with your therapist working with you, sometimes for years. What it tries to do slowly is to bring to the forefront of your mind those unconscious memories and thoughts that drive your anxiety. Something a bit like CBT (cognitive-behavioral therapy), where you're forced to confront your fears but it's gentler and less intrusive.
You're encouraged to find these thoughts and behavioral patterns for yourself and work out the subtle underlying causes behind these with your therapist. Sometimes if the underlying causes for your anxiety or panic attacks have been building up over a length of time, a therapy like CBT might not be able to help you.
You might need to time and greater attention to sort out each individual thread and come to terms with it before you can think about moving on. Don't be ashamed if this is the case for you. All people are different and will move forward at their own pace, so don't try to rush through your psychoanalysis thinking that you need to finish it off as soon as possible or think that you're progressing too slowly. There's no such thing as too slow when you're having therapy.
