The original "talk therapy" because of the importance it gives to speech, psychoanalytic therapy encourages talking freely about problems, the past, the present, the future, even dreams and fantasies. Talking openly like this allows for the pain of experience to soften and for a person to confront the conflicts that he or she has been reluctant to face. In an era of manualized treatments and short medication management visits, it offers a place and a time where a person has the liberty to speak without inhibition.