PsychoanalysisSigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud : Psychoanalysis

In the field of psychology , as the father of psychoanalysis , Sigmund Freud affirmed and asserted that individual patients could benefit from an analysis of unconscious dynamics that included neurotic conflicts dreams , wish fulfillment , and other mechanisms of the life of the self Besides this , Freud also believed that psychoanalytic theory could be applied to elements of social and cultural life in such a way as to gain enlightenment . This would discuss and evaluate the

methods and concepts that Freud built into the psychoanalytic theory

Quite often , the Freudian patients had difficulty recalling this childhood event . Freud , by use of free association would encourage them to remember the event from there past and so the patient could come to terms with it and hence recover from his neuroses . Another method was the interpretation of dreams in which Freud outlined his theory of the mind . A further discovery was transference , where the patient projects his feelings on to the therapist . Methods of hypnosis were originally used by Freud to find the cause for anxiety , but he dismissed them as being too inaccurate . He started to use methods of free association to delve into the patient 's sub-conscious . By assessing the patient 's reactions to the analyst 's suggestions , Freud saw that the analyst could help the patient become consciously aware of his repressed childhood conflicts and impulses . By interpreting the patient 's dreams , the analyst can provide an insight into the patient 's conflicts as well . The therapist 's interpretations of the patient 's free associations and dreams are known as psychoanalysis

Freud 's theory of psychoanalysis , however , does have its problems . One of its drawbacks is that it is based on the assumption that repressed conflicts and impulses do in fact exist . Today this assumption is being challenged , and is provoking intense debate . Freud first developed these methods of psychoanalysis when he met with patients whose diss did not make neurological sense . A patient , for example , may have suddenly gone blind . The problem is that there is no damage to either of his eyes . Freud began to wonder if this dis might be psychological rather than physiological . A patient not wanting to see something that aroused anxiety might have caused his own blindness , he hypothesized Freud also believed that dreams were an important way of getting into the patient 's subconscious . By analyzing dreams , he could reveal the basis of conflict within the patient

Freud believed the mind was made up of three main parts : the conscious the preconscious , and the subconscious . The conscious region is the part that people are most aware of and what others can see . The preconscious region holds thoughts and feelings that a person can become aware of but that are mostly hidden away . The subconscious region consists of thoughts and feelings which are completely hidden away and which one is mostly unaware of . Some believe that the preconscious region...