A 2008 study of course descriptions at 150 colleges and universities found that 86% of courses referencing psychoanalysis were taught outside psych departments.
As you free associate, talk about your past and answer questions, your psychoanalyst picks up on sensitive subjects around which you appear to show resistance.
The vindictive psychology of some men is beyond such analysis, but the expectations widely imposed on women, and how non-conformists are treated, can be probed, and maybe even changed.