PSYCHOANALYSIS

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis

What is psychoanalysis?

The term "psychoanalysis" goes back to Sigmund Freud, who described his new method of treatment for the first time in 1896 as psychoanalysis. His definition was: "Psychoanalysis is the first name of a method for investigation of mental processes which are otherwise hardly accessible, a second method of treatment of neurotic disorders, based on this investigation, a number of third psychological insights gained by such means which gradually lead to a new scientific discipline. "

Psychoanalysis is the science of unconscious processes in mental life. Psychoanalysis is also a method of psychotherapy, a clinical-psychological theory and a general psychological theory based thereon. Everyone has probably already made experience with unconscious mental processes: You have forgotten one name, for example, trying to remember. Although you just know that you know the name, it is not a one. Suddenly, after having long been thinking of something else, the memory is back. Obviously, internal processes outside of awareness have further worked to recover the memories.

Often goes on unconscious processes not only a harmless forgetting of names. Unconscious processes are also often responsible for the development of mental and psychosomatic disorders and diseases. Psychoanalysis is concerned with these disorders, the underlying unconscious conflicts and their processing by psychological defence mechanisms. It deals with the current emergence of such conflicts and their roots in the child-parent relationship.

Psychoanalysis treats not only the origin and treatment of mental disorders. Psychoanalytic theory also includes areas of emotion psychology, developmental psychology, and social psychology and memory. Psychoanalytic theories about the psychology also be of interest to educational issues, for literary and artistic interpretation, history of mentality, for the micro and cultural sociology, anthropology and areas of the law.

Psychoanalysis is based on a theory of conflict of opposing forces in the personality. The goal of treatment is to assist the patient in the search for a personal and continuity in the attempt is to find appropriate solutions to its own internal conflicts. This includes adherence to the custom, which has become unconscious and conscious life story (again) to acquire. The aim is not to produce a "harmonious" personality or superficial conformity. Psychoanalysis provides the individual rather a method for exploring his own unconscious motives and integrate split off and rejected parts of him. Split-off parts and rejected by their own people feel self-directed. In this respect it is of psychoanalysis to an exemption from foreign internalized rules, the causes of mental disorders and related symptoms.

Psychoanalysts were sometimes accused of their treatment methods and their theories had more to do with faith than with science. In fact, however, psychoanalysts have no beliefs or truths and preaching. It is more about them, to create a space to the subject and conditions for an authentic and truthful communication. This ability is based on a self-conscious and responsible thinking, which develops from the emotional experiences of our childhood out. For drives, emotions, and determine the fates of their psycho-spiritual growth process of the people. They determine his ability to mental alertness, curiosity and creativity ...