PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Therapeutic Relationship, Electra Complex, Dream Interpretation
21 Nov 2016
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The aim of psychoanalysis is to figure out what goes on in the unconscious recesses of the mind; sigmund freud created it; complex theory. Medical doctor who practiced in vienna, austria; began his career as a neurologist then. Early in his clinical practice he made a fundamental discovery: when his patients talked moved onto psychiatry. No other psychological approach is as influential as freud(cid:495)s. One of his patients dubbed the results of such therapy the (cid:494)talking cure(cid:495) Freud thought he knew why talking helped about their psychological problems, sometimes that was enough to cure or help them. Freud attracted many whom he encouraged to help spread this idea: carl jung and alfred trying to figure out what is going on. His ideas came from his patients and his observations of his own mind: both begin the psychological endeavor with the attempt to know themselves psychologists work outside of their own personalities.
