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A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis and treatment pf psychoneuroses based on the work of Dr Sigmund Freud 1856 1939 of Vienna The method rests upon the theory that neurosis is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent it consists in a close analysis of the patients mental history effort being made to bring unconsciuos and preconscious material to consciousness the methods include analysis of transferance and resistance In some variants stress is laid upon the dream life and of treatment by means of suggestion