Psychoanalytic Therapy

 

 

FOUNDER: Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

KEY CONCEPTS:          

1.  The dynamics of the unconscious and it's influence on behavior
2.  The role of anxiety
3.  Understanding of transference and counter transference
4.  The development of personality at various stages in the life-cycle (Corey, 2009)" 

GOALS OF THERAPY:   

1. Make unconsious conscious
2. Reconstruct basic personality
3. Assist in reliving earlier experiences and work through repressed conflicts
4. Achieve intellectual and emotional awareness (Corey, 2009).

TECHNIQUES:

1. Maintaining analytical framework
2. Free association
3. Interpretation
4. Dream analysis
5. Analysis of resistance
6. Analysis of transference (Corey, 2009)  

 FIGURES ASSOCIATED WITH THEORY:

1. Sigmund Freud- introduced the concept in 1937
2. Eric Erickson- built on Freud's ideas and extended his theories in 1963
3. Carl Gustav Jung- unlike Freud, thought the goal of therapy was to transform personality in 1913 (Corey, 2009).