Psychoanalysis is a kind of treatment that involves talking, often for a long time, about your life, your feelings, and sometimes your dreams, in order to find hidden causes of trouble. It is not a pill, and it is not a short chat.

Psychoanalysis is a kind of treatment that involves talking, often for a long time, about your life, your feelings, and sometimes your dreams精神分析是一種治療方式，內容是談話，常常談很久，談你的生活、你的感受，有時候也談你的夢—— in order to find hidden causes of trouble目的是找出困擾背後隱藏的原因。It is not a pill它不是吃藥， and it is not a short chat也不是一次短短的聊天。

It grew after German Psychoanalyse, from the work of Sigmund Freud. English builds the same idea as psycho- (“mind”) plus analysis (“taking something apart to understand it”).

It grew after German Psychoanalyse這個字是仿照德文 Psychoanalyse 而來， from the work of Sigmund Freud源自佛洛伊德(Sigmund Freud)的研究。English builds the same idea as psycho- (mind)英文用同樣的概念組成這個字：psycho-(「心智」) plus analysis (taking something apart to understand it)加上 analysis(「把東西拆開來理解」)。

Though actually, people now stretch the word for any deep talk about childhood. Strict training in this method is narrower than that.

Though actually不過其實， people now stretch the word for any deep talk about childhood現在大家把這個字延伸來指任何關於童年的深入談話。Strict training in this method is narrower than that這套方法真正嚴格的訓練範圍比那個窄得多。

It is also not the same thing as psychiatry: psychiatry is the whole medical field of mental illness; psychoanalysis is one talking method, used inside that world and sometimes outside it.

It is also not the same thing as psychiatry它也跟精神醫學(psychiatry)不一樣： psychiatry is the whole medical field of mental illness精神醫學是處理精神疾病的整個醫學領域； psychoanalysis is one talking method, used inside that world and sometimes outside it精神分析則是一種談話方法，用在那個領域裡，有時候也用在領域之外。