BASIC CONCEPTS

& PRINCIPLES OF
PSYCHOANALYSIS
 Psychoanalysis and Freud

• Sigmund Freud (born May 6 1856- 23 September

1939) was an Austrian neurologist who became
known as the founding father of psychoanalysis.

• Freud qualified as a doctor of medicine at the

University of Vienna in 1881, and then carried out
research into cerebral palsy, aphasia and
microscopic neuroanatomy at the Vienna General
Hospital. He was appointed a university lecturer in
neuropathology in 1885 and became a professor in
1902.
Psychoanalysis is important because
it was the first school of psychology
to focus on the unconscious and the
desires and impulses that may drive
our behaviors and actions.
A system of psychological theory and therapy that
aims to treat mental conditions by investigating
the interaction of conscious and unconscious
elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears
and conflicts into the conscious mind by
techniques such as dream interpretation and free
association.
Psychoanalysis, method of treating
mental disorders, shaped by
psychoanalytic theory, which
emphasizes unconscious mental
processes and is sometimes described
as “depth psychology.”
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