Psychoanalytic Theory
Founder: Sigmund Freud is the founding father (1856-1939) while Erik Erikson (1963) built on Freud's ideas beyond early childhood. Erikson claimed that psychosocial growth and psychosexual growth take place together.
Goals of Therapy: Two therapeutic goals were to make the unconscious conscious and to build on the egos strength so that the behavior is based more on reality and less on guilt and instinctual cravings.
Key Terms: Repression, sexuality, self, dream interpretations, transference, the unconscious, Id, ego, superego, Oedipus complex
Six Basic Techniques include:
- maintaining analytic framework-anonymity, neutrality, and objectivity etc....
- free association-saying whatever comes to mind
- interpretation-explaining & teaching client meanings of behavior
- dream analysis- uncovering unconscious material from dreams
- analysis of resistance- works against the progress of therapy
- analysis of transference-client's unconscious shifting to the analyst of feelings and fantasies that are reactions to significant others in the client's past
The following video does a great job explaining psychoanalytic therapy.
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