What’s the difference between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis?

stellalevi/Getty Mention psychotherapy and many people picture a familiar movie scene: someone lying on a couch, talking about their childhood, while a therapist sits behind them taking notes. That image comes largely from psychoanalysis. But it doesn’t represent most psychotherapy today. Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis aren’t really competing treatments. Psychotherapy is the broader term for a range of psychological treatments designed to help people change troubling thoughts, feelings,…