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  2. Psychoanalytic theory - Wikipedia

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    Psychoanalytic theory is the theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality development relating to the practice of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology. First laid out by Sigmund Freud in the late 19th century (particularly in his 1899 book The Interpretation of Dreams), psychoanalytic theory has ...

  3. Freud's psychoanalytic theories - Wikipedia

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    Freud believed that people could be cured by making their unconscious a conscious thought and motivations, and by that gaining "insight". The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences, i.e. make the unconscious conscious. Psychoanalysis is commonly used to treat depression and anxiety disorders.

  4. Psychoanalysis - Wikipedia

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    Psychoanalysis[i] is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques [ii] that deal in part with the unconscious mind, [iii] and which together form a method of treatment for mental disorders. The discipline was established in the early 1890s by Sigmund Freud, [1] whose work stemmed partly from the clinical work of Josef Breuer and others.

  5. Introduction to Psychoanalysis - Wikipedia

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    Introduction to Psychoanalysis or Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (German: Einführung in die Psychoanalyse) [1] is a set of lectures given by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in 1915–1917 (published 1916–1917, in English 1920). [2] The 28 lectures offer an elementary stock-taking of his views of the unconscious ...

  6. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis - Wikipedia

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    The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis is the 1978 English-language translation of a seminar held by Jacques Lacan. The original (French: Le séminaire. Livre XI. Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse) was published in Paris by Le Seuil in 1973. The Seminar was held at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris between ...

  7. Id, ego and superego - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In psychoanalytic theory the “id, the ego and the superego” are three different, interacting agents in the psychic apparatus as Sigmund Freud summarized and defined it in his structural model of the psyche. He developed these three terms to describe the basic structure and various phenomena of mental life as they was encountered in ...

  8. The Ego and the Id - Wikipedia

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    The Ego and the Id (German: Das Ich und das Es) is a prominent paper by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. It is an analytical study of the human psyche outlining his theories of the psychodynamics of the id, ego and super-ego, which is of fundamental importance in the development of psychoanalysis. The study was conducted over years ...

  9. List of psychoanalytical theorists - Wikipedia

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    James Hillman - founder of Archetypal Psychology. James Hollis - psychoanalyst. Karen Horney – psychoanalyst. Luce Irigaray – philosopher. Susan Sutherland Isaacs – psychoanalyst. Edith Jacobson – psychoanalyst. Arthur Janov. Adrian Johnston – philosopher. Ernest Jones – psychoanalyst.