Benefits to Psychoanalytic Therapy include:   Relief from painful emotional symptoms Stop self-destructive patterns of behavior and feelings Improve your personal relationships Achieve greater emotional freedom Gain or regain control over your life Improve and change lifelong ways of struggling and coping that are not working, beneficial and/or damaging Understand feelings and behaviors that are not beneficial and/or damaging and do not make sense Gain greater pleasure from life Feel understood and understand yourself as a unique individual Prevent the past from interfering with the present Become more productive in your career, at work or in school Talk to a compassionate professional in a safe and private environment Gain emotional growth and maturity