Psychoanalysis does not have an obvious relationship to psychiatry. It is not particularly interested in psychiatric illnesses, but rather in how people adapt, how they cope with stress, including the stress of illness, and including the stress of psychiatric illnesses, rather than in the illnesses themselves. It is interested in the person's mind, not his body or even his brain. Psychoanalysis began outside of psychiatry, and Freud, himself a neurologist, not a psychiatrist, never saw it as part of psychiatry.
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