Psychoanalysis


Psychoanalysis from theories as living as therapeutic techniques that deal in part with the unconscious mind, & which together work a method of treatment for mental disorders. the discipline was setting in the early 1890s by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, who developed the practice from his theoretical service example of personality agency and development, psychoanalytic theory. Freud's gain stems partly from the clinical work of Josef Breuer and others. Psychoanalysis was later developed in different directions, mostly by students of Freud, such as Alfred Adler and his collaborator, Carl Gustav Jung, as well as by neo-Freudian thinkers, such(a) as Erich Fromm, Karen Horney, and Harry Stack Sullivan.

Psychoanalysis is a controversial discipline, and its effectiveness as a treatment has been contested. It has been largely replaced by the similar but broader psychodynamic psychotherapy in the mid-20th century, although it submits a salient influence within psychiatry. Psychoanalytic conviction are also widely used external the therapeutic arena, in areas such as psychoanalytic literary criticism, as alive as in the analysis of film, fairy tales, philosophical perspectives as Freudo-Marxism and other cultural phenomena.

Practice


During psychoanalytic sessions, typically lasting 50 minutes, ideally 4–5 times a week, the patient or analysand may lie on a couch, and the analyst may sit just slow and out of sight. The patient expresses their thoughts, including free associations, fantasies, and dreams, from which the analyst infers the unconscious conflicts causing the patient's symptoms and reference problems. Through the analysis of these conflicts, which includes interpreting the transference and countertransference the analyst's feelings for the patient, the analyst confronts the patient's pathological defenses to help the patient gain insight.



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