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  2. Introduction to Psychoanalysis - Wikipedia

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    Introduction to Psychoanalysis or Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (‹See Tfd› German: Einführung in die Psychoanalyse) [1] is a set of lectures given by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in 1915–1917 (published 1916–1917, in English 1920). [2] The 28 lectures offer an elementary stock-taking of his views of the ...

  3. Sigmund Freud - Wikipedia

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    Sigmund Freud (/ f r ɔɪ d / FROYD; [2] German: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfrɔʏt]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, [3] and the distinctive theory of ...

  4. Psychodynamics - Wikipedia

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    In mate selection psychology, psychodynamics is defined as the study of the forces, motives, and energy generated by the deepest of human needs. [9] In general, psychodynamics studies the transformations and exchanges of "psychic energy" within the personality. [5] A focus in psychodynamics is the connection between the energetics of emotional ...

  5. Freud's psychoanalytic theories - Wikipedia

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    Psychoanalysis was founded by Sigmund Freud. Freud believed that people could be cured by making their unconscious a conscious thought and motivations, and by that gaining "insight". The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences, i.e. make the unconscious conscious.

  6. Models of abnormality - Wikipedia

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    The psychodynamic model is the fourth psychological model of abnormality and is based on the work of Sigmund Freud. It is based on the principles that psychological illnesses come about from repressed emotions and thoughts from experiences in the past (usually childhood), and as a result of this repression , alternative behaviour replaces what ...

  7. Psychoanalytic theory - Wikipedia

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    Psychoanalytic theory. Psychoanalytic theory is the theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality development relating to the practice of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology. First laid out by Sigmund Freud in the late 19th century (particularly in his 1899 book The Interpretation of Dreams ...

  8. Ego psychology - Wikipedia

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    Ego psychology is a school of psychoanalysis rooted in Sigmund Freud 's structural id-ego-superego model of the mind. An individual interacts with the external world as well as responds to internal forces. Many psychoanalysts use a theoretical construct called the ego to explain how that is done through various ego functions.

  9. Beyond the Pleasure Principle - Wikipedia

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    e. Beyond the Pleasure Principle (German: Jenseits des Lustprinzips) is a 1920 essay by Sigmund Freud. It marks a major turning point in the formulation of his drive theory, where Freud had previously attributed self-preservation in human behavior to the drives of Eros and the regulation of libido, governed by the pleasure principle.