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World J Clin Cases. Mar 6, 2022; 10(7): 2053-2062
Published online Mar 6, 2022. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v10.i7.2053
Personalized treatment - which interaction ingredients should be focused to capture the unconscious
Dagmar Steinmair, Henriette Löffler-Stastka
Dagmar Steinmair, Henriette Löffler-Stastka, Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University Vienna, Wien 1090, Österreich, Austria
Author contributions: Löffler-Stastka H concepted, wrote, discussed, critically revised and edited the paper, and performed the literature review; Steinmair D wrote, discussed and edited the paper, and performed the literature review.
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Corresponding author: Henriette Löffler-Stastka, MD, Director, Professor, Dept. of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, Wien 1090, Österreich, Austria. henriette.loeffler-stastka@meduniwien.ac.at
Received: July 22, 2021
Peer-review started: July 22, 2021
First decision: December 12, 2021
Revised: December 14, 2021
Accepted: February 12, 2022
Article in press: February 12, 2022
Published online: March 6, 2022
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Core Tip

Core Tip: Interdisciplinary integration of mental health issues requires communication between different disciplines. Treatment adherence depends on relational problems and thus is not limited to problems within a person influencing the mental health continuum. However, the diagnostic statistical manual lacks representation of relational problems. In contrast, psychoanalysis has focused on relationship problems and abilities emerging from relations with promising outcomes. Targeting unconscious processing is a promising intervention strategy for improving adherence to transformation processes. Unconscious conflicts and resistances might lead to self-sabotage of relationships. Furthermore, such unconscious processes might prevent accessibility of an individual’s abilities and might obscure true motivations.