I am a clinical psychologist and I have worked in different scenarios and people such as: children, young adults, women victims of violence and abuse and incarcerated women.
The primary assumption of psychoanalysis is the belief that all people possess unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories.
The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences, i.e., make the unconscious conscious. It is only having a cathartic (i.e., healing) experience can the person be helped and "cured."