Freud & Psycho-Analysis

Psycho-Analysis

Psychoanalysis  Unlocking the mind is key to understanding motivation for individual behaviour  Underlying, unresolved issues  Ways of interpreting, attaching and creating systems of meaning  Most powerful meaning created in child by experiences and early mentors

The Human Psyche  Conscious Mind  Information we are aware of  Non-Conscious Mind  super ego – moral center,  ego - rational part of the mind- socially conditioned  Unconscious Mind  id- instinctual, urges and drives, instinct, selfish, self- preservation, socially repressed emotions

Conscious and Unconscious Mind

Defense Mechanism

Free Association  Method used to uncover the unconscious mind  Examine dreams and fantasies within the id so as to identify ways in which they repress and create defense mechanism  Transference - project feelings on to the therapist so as to examine their feelings and gain insight into current relationships  Examining the importance of child- parent relationship