Psychoanalysis and evidence-based practice in mental health

Abstract

In this article, we discuss the fallacy that psychoanalysis is a practice that does not have evidence of effectiveness, carrying out a bibliographical research in several databases to verify if there are researches that support psychoanalysis as an evidence-based treatment. Throughout the article, we pin the importance of this research since in several countries that are references in the health field, for a practice to be accepted it must have effectiveness evidence and, although as exposed in the body of this research. As we demonstrated in our research, Psychoanalysis has numerous researches that show its effectiveness but, major countryies in the field of mental health as United States, United Kingdom and Canadá, do not consider Psychoanalysis as an evidence-based treatment. This finding led us to search and identify some reasons for this.