[omginternets]

>but therapy in general is an intensely personal experience.

And empirically speaking, psychoanalytic therapy has a piss-poor record in dealing with mental illness.

If you're looking for spiritual guidance, then maybe a psychoanalyst can help. If you're looking for clinical efficacy, they demonstrably don't.

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to make a relevant Google Scholar query, but be careful not to confuse psychoanalysis with clinical psychology.

> for a lot of people the "literary theory" part is just as helpful.

Fine, but this is a conversation about psychology as a science.