This is not just one of the types of psychotherapy that helps us cope with various problems. Psychoanalysis gives us the opportunity to explore our unconscious in order to become a person free and creative. Andrei Rossokhin talks about the method.
Psychoanalysis is the concept of multi -digit: it is the largest personality theory, and the method of study of the unconscious, and the method of treating various mental disorders. This was all created by one person – Austrian doctor Sigmund Freud. He managed to formulate in his theories what other scientists and thinkers only guessed;He began to use technology in working with patients, which his colleagues-doctors took on hostility and even ridiculed, but it was these techniques that helped people get rid of mental illness. Thanks to the courage of the spirit, Freud managed to make discoveries, which became the basis of psychoanalysis and an important part of modern culture.
The founding father
Austrian doctor Sigmund Freud began private practice of a psychiatrist in 1882. Trying to help his patients who suffered from mood variability, longing, anxiety attacks, he studies various methods of treating nervous diseases. Working together with the largest French psychiatrist Charcot (Jean-Martin Charcot), mastering the technique of hypnosis. Together with his colleague, Joseph Brejer, develops the catharsis method – release of emotions during the patient’s conversation with a doctor. Together with Braier, Freud writes the book “Studies of hysteria”, in which for the first time in the history of medicine it claims that hysteria is “not a disease of nerves”, but a person’s disorder. Communication with Breyer helped him to come to the discovery of the unconscious, to understand the process of crowding out injuring experiences (we “forget” what we cannot control) and children’s sexuality, which determines the development of our psyche
. In the treatment technique, Freud stopped using hypnosis and began to work using free associations (including dream analysis), which became the basis of the psychoanalysis method.
Free and creative person
Thanks to psychoanalysis over the past hundred years, many psychotherapeutic directions and theories of personality have arisen: Yungian analysis, individual psychology individual psychology of Alfred Adler, bodily-oriented psychotherapy of Wilhelm Reich, transactic analysis of the aircraft of Berne (Eric Berne) and many others.
