Psychoanalysis - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: psychoanalysisfree association
The act or process of free associating It is a technique used in psychoanalysis and is supposed to allow the analyst access to the unconscious thoughts of the analysand See free associate...
Freud
Sigmund Freud the founder of the practise of psychoanalysis Born 1856 died 1939...
Psychanalysis
same as psychoanalysis an older term now obsolete...
Psychoanalysis
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...
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