Psychoanalysis
Founder: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Goals of therapy: To make the unconscious conscious. To reconstruct the basic personality. To assist clients in reliving earlier experience and working through repressed conflicts. To achieve intellectual awareness.
Key points: Focus on unconscious psychodynamics. Attention to repressed material. Strengthen ego to moderate id and superego. Develop a transference relationship and work through it. Extensive exploration of past. Focus on key influences in developmental years and how they influenced current behavior. Analysis of dreams and slips for repressed and unconscious material. Free association
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