PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Dream Interpretation, Repetition Compulsion, Contemporary Psychoanalysis

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Frank Marchese

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Psychoanalysis - psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy (the change process) guided by psychoanalytic theory. Encompasses a theory of personality, and approach to studying personality and procedures for assessing and changing personality. Psychoanalytic strategy emphasizes the primacy of driving forces within the person that motivates them to display consistent patterns of behaviour and interpersonal relations. The emphasis placed on these internal forces distinguishes psychoanalytic approaches from other strategies. Most psychoanalytic theorists say that motivating forces derived from processes that occur beyond the conscious awareness of the individual. Four basic issues in personality psychology (that are highly intertwined in psychoanalytic strategy): theory, assessment, research, application. Observations made in psychoanalytic therapy form both the basis of personality theory and the research evidence in support of the theory"s validity. Sigmund freud - dominated the work and writings of the psychoanalytic strategy. Founder of psychoanalytic thought (theory, research, methodology, and psychotherapy) Theories consist of a number of separable but interrelated mini-theories.