ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis is a one-person approach in so far as one individual, the analyst, is expected to be able to analyse the unconscious, aggressive, sexual impulses and disappointments that are interfering with another person's capacity to relinquish their familial ties and to develop and maintain satisfying mature personal relationships. Existential psychotherapy is concerned with helping the client to differentiate between their assumptions, which are often values unknowingly borrowed from significant others, and their own personal values. In David Shainberg's opinion, the rigid aspect of the vortex can be likened to sedimented thoughts and belief patterns that are frequently presented in psychotherapy. The rudimentary ideas endorse a belief in the need for the conflicting schools of psychotherapy to consider how all of our own stubborn vortices may be contributing to the incessant focus on differences rather than similarities and interconnections.
