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Definition: psychoanalysis from Dictionary of Psychological Testing, Assessment and Treatment

The treatment of mental illness by means of analysing the patient’s subconscious, which is argued to be the cause of aberrant conscious behaviour and/or negative feelings. Psychoanalysis is usually confined to the treatment of relatively mild complaints. See ego analysis, Freud’s psychoanalytic theory.


Psychoanalysis

From The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science
Psychoanalysis is a theory of the mind and a method derived from that theory to treat mental disturbances. It had its origins in the discoveries and formulations developed over some 50 years by its creator, Sigmund Freud, a neurologist, neuroanatomist, and neuropathologist living in Vienna, who had an inquiring mind about the nature of mental processes. Freud was born in 1856. During a travel grant at the famous Salpetriere Clinic in Paris for 4 months in 1885–1886, under the noted French neurologist Charcot, the young physician came to learn from his mentor, via now-classic experiments in hypnosis, that ideas can instill and then remove and abolish the central features of hysteria. Previously, an older colleague, Josef Breuer, had informed Freud of a patient with a double personality, consisting of alternating states of normalcy and multiple hysterical symptoms coming on around the death of her father. The patient would induce auto-hypnotic states during which she would speak to…
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Introduction Sigmund Freud's Explanation of War and Violence Post-Freudian Psychoanalytic Explanations of War and Violence Psychoanalytic Contributions to Reducing Violent Social Conflicts Conclusion Further Reading Glossary Chosen Glory The mental representation of events that include a shared…
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From Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
A method of analysing discourse in order to discover its hidden meanings, originally developed as a cure for various mental disorders, but later extended to become a method of analysing literature, film and other cultural phenomena. Psychoanalysis was developed as a technique by Sigmund Freud from…
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From Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
This refers to the type of psychotherapy that was founded by Sigmund Freud . In psychoanalysis the therapist, or analyst, seeks to aid patients to recognize their unconscious motivation . According to psychoanalysts, all people have unconscious desires and thus everyone would benefit from undergoing…
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From World of Sociology, Gale
Psychoanalysis was originally introduced by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Psychoanalysis is a therapeutic approach that attempts to eliminate anxiety by giving the patient insight into unconscious motivation and conflict. Anxiety is a state of tension that moves us into action. There are several types…
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From Encyclopedia of Women's Health
Psychoanalysis is an intensive treatment method based on the observation that people are usually unaware of the factors responsible for their symptoms, difficulties at work, relationships, moods, irrational fears, and a general inability to enjoy life and live up to their potential. Psychoanalysis…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
name given by Sigmund Freud to a system of interpretation and therapeutic treatment of psychological disorders. Psychoanalysis began after Freud studied (1885–86) with the French neurologist J. M. Charcot in Paris and became convinced that hysteria was caused not by organic symptoms in the nervous…
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From Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Psychoanalysis is considered both a set of theories and therapeutic methods used to study the unconscious mind and is based on the understanding that individuals are largely unaware of the mental processes that determine their thoughts, feelings, and behavior and that psychological issues can be…
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From Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
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Psychoanalysis is a method for treating mental, emotional, and behavioral dysfunctions as developed by Sigmund Freud. Developed in Vienna, Austria, by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), psychoanalysis is based on an approach in which the therapist helps patients better understand themselves through…
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From International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Glossary Extimacy A neologism invented by Jacques Lacan, consisting of the French intimate and exterieur , which relates to the topological rejection of clearly separating inside and outside. Fantasy The way how the subject structures her/his social reality…
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From Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Psychoanalysis is at once a distinct intellectual discipline, a theory of the human mind and human body , and a kind of therapeutic practice. It was founded by Sigmund Freud in turn-of-the-century Vienna, where he swiftly gathered a group of like-minded practitioners around him. By the second decade…
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