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Central to the modern practice of psychiatry is the ‘Bio-Psycho-Social’ approach, of which psychotherapy has been described as an essential component. While Most psychiatric educators continue to view acquiring the knowledge, skills, and attitudes underlying psychotherapy as essential to a psychiatrist's role, regardless of future practice setting or career goals, over the past 10 years office-based psychiatrists have shifted to providing fewer psychotherapy visits and more medication checks. In this regard, the main goals of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy, as important components of psychotherapy in general, are symptom relief and personality modification through exploration of the unconscious. Psychodynamic factors are also important in many interactions within mental health teams, both community- and ward-based. While an area such as psychopharmacology can be learnt in a more self-directed way, relying mainly on written information, the main activity of psychotherapy training is seeing patients, and being supervised in their treatment. But the situation of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy as training curriculum is not the same in developed and developing societies, due to a mixture of valid and nonvalid believes. The end result of such a disturbing circle could be nothing except than general ignorance of this deeply investigative method and replacing it with more superficial individual psychotherapeutic methods like Cognitive therapy, behavior therapy and etc, which act only at conscious and subconscious levels. In addition, decreasing rate of practice of psychotherapy by psychiatrist in developed societies may perhaps be dissuading for interested therapists in developing ones. In this article, which is focused primarily on conservative and developing countries, some barriers against advancement of applied (clinical) psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy amongst psychotherapeutic community and the probable solutions have been briefly discussed.