psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) claimed that the roots of the psychological problems are innate motives (sex and aggression); the conscious mental processes have trivial importance compared with the unconscious mind; the psychoanalysis is the technique of helping persons with emotional problems.

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  1. noun The method of psychological therapy originated by Sigmund Freud in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts, in order to free psychic energy for mature love and work.
  2. noun The theory of personality developed by Freud that focuses on repression and unconscious forces and includes the concepts of infantile sexuality, resistance, transference, and division of the psyche into the id, ego, and superego.
  3. noun Psychotherapy incorporating this method and theory.

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  • Certain European importations were remarkably successful in the United States-psychoanalysis, existentialism. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
  • Long before Freud and Jung developed modern psychoanalysis, the yogins of India had discovered the unconscious mind and had, to a degree, learned to master it. —  Buddha
  • I could only trust that Frick was not too familiar with psychoanalysis, and so would not notice what I was doing I confess that for a moment while waiting I was swept with the feeling that it was hopeless, but I soon roused from that. —  Astounding Stories June, 1935
  • Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) claimed that the roots of the psychological problems are innate motives (sex and aggression); the conscious mental processes have trivial importance compared with the unconscious mind; the psychoanalysis is the technique of helping persons with emotional problems. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • He developed psychoanalysis, an influential method of studying the mind —  LearnHub Activities
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