Does Psychoanalytic Therapy focus only on Childhood Events?
Events in the first five or six years of life do have an important and lasting effect on the development of character. However, there are many factors that affect a persons present-day mental and emotional states. The past is important only if it interferes with the patient’s ability to function in the present. The therapist helps a patient whose emotional disorder is rooted in childhood distress grow as an adult.
