Psychoanalysis is a psychological and psychotherapeutic theory founded in the late 19th century by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud.
Psychoanalysis was founded by Sigmund Freud (1916-1917). Freud believed that people could be cured by making conscious theirunconscious thoughts and motivations, thus gaining “insight”.
The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences, i.e. make the unconscious conscious.
Psychoanalysis is commonly used to treat depression and anxiety disorders.
It is only having a cathartic (i.e. healing) experience can the person be helped and "cured".
http://www.simplypsychology.org/psychoanalysis.htmlWhat is Psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud’s day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.
These include:
- the discovery that there are large aspects of our psychological functioning which, though having a profound determining effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is, they are unconscious
- the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
- the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships ‘templates’ derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
- the recognition of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood
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