Though there are various theories of psychotherapy in addition to traditional Freudian psychoanalysis, the processes of therapy are often quite similar.
As in traditional psychoanalysis, you don't see the analyst.
He was struck by the fundamental differences between characteranalytic vegetotherapy and traditional psychoanalysis.
Klein was the first person to use traditional psychoanalysis with young children.
To remove those defenses, as traditional psychoanalysis often sets out to do, would be cruel.
The family-system modality emerged in the 1970's as a radical departure from the traditional one-on-one psychoanalysis and psychotherapy approach.
In traditional psychoanalysis, the patient usually lies on a couch and says whatever comes to mind, while the analyst says relatively little.
As such, it is more closely aligned to transpersonal psychology than to traditional psychoanalysis.
Then again, traditional Freudian psychoanalysis is less widely understood than current events, so parodying it provides a special challenge.
But unlike traditional psychoanalysis, it focused on relieving symptoms quickly, and was time-limited.