ABSTRACT
The International Psychoanalytical Association Congress took up the challenge of addressing confusion around psychoanalysis when they chose the theme for their Nice Congress. One of the central aims of psychoanalysis is to provide a therapeutic treatment that enables patients to come to a deeper awareness of enduring and pathological patterns of behaviour influencing life situations. It is important that any exploration of the unique psychoanalytic relationship between the patient and analyst captures the complexities of the clinical situation. Psychoanalysis has been defined as a dynamic form of treatment, a method for the scientific study of the personality, and a system of scientific psychology to predict human behavior. One of the main problems in searching for a consensus on psychoanalysis seemed related to Anna Freud’s continual vacillation over what he considered as the important elements and central aims of analysis.
