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FROM A DESCRIPTIVE VIEWPOINT, psychoanalytic treatment is carried out between two persons: The two participants are involved in the therapeutic process, which develops according to the dynamics of interaction between them.
From its very beginning, the interest of psychoanalysis was centered on the patient. One of Freud's great contributions was to recognize and use as a therapeutic tool the patient's impulses, desires, and fantasies towards the doctor, instead of considering