Psychoanalytic process

Psychoanalytic process

1. Sigmund Freud

   • Father of Psychoanalysis
   • Unconscious
     • id
       • Socially acceptable
         • Ego ideal
           • view of what is right
         • Conscious
           • View of what is considered to be wrong
   • Preconscious
     • Ego
       • Makes decisions
         • Reality principle
           • Desires of the id must be satisfied in a method that ir both socially appropriate and realistic
   • Conscious
     • SuperEgo
       • Instincts
         • Pleasure principle
       • Figure 1. Structural Iceberg (Jordangordanier, 2006).

2. Steps

   • 1. Opening Phase
     • Different techniques are aplplied
     • Interviews
     • Laying on the couch
     • Interpretation
       • Analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.
   • 2. The development of Transference phase
     • Awareness into the emergent transference and countertransference aspects of the ongoing relationship between the client and the therapist (Kumar, 2017)
     • Trasference
       • The patient’s transfer to the analyst emotions linked with other relationships.
   • 3. Working through phase
     • Working through client resistance
       • Resistances aim to prevent this development or to obstruct the analysis of the transfer (Kumar, 2017).
     • Resistances
       • Blocking anxiety laden material from the conscious
   • 4. Resolution of the transference phase
     • After the goal is reached
       • The purpose of this phase is to resolve the client's neurotic attachment to the therapist (Kumar, 2017).
       • Last step
         • Separation

3. Goals

   • Access a patient’s unconscious mind
   • Make unconscious conscious
   • Strengthen the Ego
   • Develop the level of self understanding
   • Achieving Insight

4. Techniques

   • Free associations
     • 2. Patients says whatever comes to their mind
     • 1. The therapist reading a list of words
   • Dream analysis
     • Patient relates a dream to be analyzed by the therapist
     • According to Freud the analysis of dreams is "the royal road to the unconscious" (McLeod, 2007).
   • Not face to face at all, laying on the couch, not too much interaction more sessions per week, longer process

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