In psychoanalysis, the patient and the analyst meet four or five times weekly. In the safety of the analytic situation, the patient learns to explore his or her inner world- thoughts, feelings, memories, sensations, visual images, fantasies, dreams, and experiences of the analyst, among others. The analyst listens to the patient and guides the patient in listening to his or her own story and in understanding connections between seemingly disparate experiences, so that patient and analyst may gain a coherent understanding of the patient's inner world. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy