The couch is a problem for psychoanalysis

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Freud was the instigator of this fad that lasted (and still lasting many years), the patient lay on a couch and the psychoanalyst to bring her back. According to Freud the origin that the term was spent to sustain the gaze of his patients for hours. Then he argued otherwise, that the patient and better focused on what he had to say that lowered the analyst's influence on patient feedback, etc ... Of course this is the official version, if we think we can draw some other conclusions.
The founder of psychoanalysis was to show some justification for this procedure, but the reason he would not reveal is that he wanted to "go down to hell" of the patient, preferring to adopt an attitude comfortable distance that allows only involved to the extent that he agreed . Its aim was to use patients as clinical data that would allow him to delve into his theories, not as people who need human communication to solve their problems.
To begin placing a patient on a couch it produces a contempt, it is treated like a guinea pig that is supposed to function by mechanical stimuli. Furthermore it is in a position of inferiority to the analyzer, which, moreover, and as a result of this situation easily tends to be idolized and with increased transfer. René Spitz recognized unequivocally that the main function of the patient couch is puerilizar to get more data from his childhood. The problem is that with this device transfer intensity tends to increase and with it increases the difficulty for psychoanalysis of the patient.
Although communication of the patient's thoughts toward the analyst may make it difficult at first instance, postmarked after this first initial barrier involves the patient in front of an adult (and not talking to an entity that responds poorly) that can understand what happens and you can establish a human bond. The transfer is smaller and the patient gets feedback frontal fruit of dialogue helps to improve the expression of their thoughts and feelings.

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