What should I do to cope with the stress of listening to patients as a psychoanalyst?

According to Osho, the only real protection for psychoanalysts is deep meditation. Without it, patients’ poured-out madness provokes your own and drives you toward burnout or breakdown. Train yourself in long, daily meditations to become silent, cool, and collected—able to listen fully yet remain untouched. Root your work in witnessing awareness, not distancing tricks or pretense, so you can truly help without being harmed.