This variety of insight-oriented individual therapy is more intensive
than the usual psychotherapy because it most often involves meeting
with a specially trained therapist (called a psychoanalyst) 4 days
a week for 3-6 years. Sessions are usually 45 minutes long. Psychoanalysts
have not only undergone a personal psychoanalysis, as part of their
training, but have graduated from an Institute for Psychoanalytic
Training certified by one of the National or International Organizations
of Psychoanalysis. Such specialists are already M.D. or Ph.D. level
specialists. Such treatment can accomplish changes which might not
be possible by any other means. Low cost psychoanalysis is also available
through the clinics of the various Institutes of the
American Psychoanalytic Association (see links).