Love, Work, and Striving for the Self in Balance: Anaclitic and Introjective Patients' Experiences of Change in Psychoanalysis.

One of the most famous quotations credited to Freud is that, when asked what he thought a psychologically healthy person should be able to do, he said: "to love and to work." A central goal in psychoanalytic treatment is to bring about changes in basic, mostly unconscious, mental structures. The aim of this study was to investigate, applying an inductive thematic analysis, the experiences anaclitic and introjective patients have had of change after psychoanalysis with regard to the domains and .