FreudEssay Preview: FreudReport this essayReaction Paper #1“Since I have started studying the unconscious, I have become so interesting tomyself.” (Sigmund Freud)Sigmund Freud is known to be the “Father of Psychology”. Though I have heard Wilhelm Wundt should hold this title, I will never stop thinking of Freud as the “Father of Psychology.” Freud is the one who introduced psychoanalysis and gave Psychology a new name. Psychoanalysis is the method of understanding how the mind works and the stages of growth and development I believe psychoanalysis is a general theory of our individual human behavior and experience. Psychoanalysis helps to explain the complex relationship between the body and mind, which furthers the understanding of the role of emotions and the unconscious. It goes on to explain how and why we behave. Psychoanalysis has paved the way for all other approaches to therapy and psychiatric practices.
Lets move on to Freuds theory of hypnotism: “a technique that Freud used to produce a state of consciousness that allows the patient to bring to the surface feelings or emotions that would otherwise be repressed.” During Freuds time this was the standard treatment for hysteria. In the text it states that Freud later questioned this form of therapy. Initially you want to accept Freuds theory, because it makes sense and seems to be an effective method of dealing with our feelings that are repressed. To think that the behaviors associated with the disease could be removed then restored under hypnosis with a physicians suggestions, seems logical. I do believe that hypnotism adjunct to catharsis could be one way to help. I do concur with what Freud later realized; “all patients could not be hypnotized or could not achieve the trancelike state of
somnambulism so necessary to relieving and releasing the strangulated emotion of the forgotten traumatic event.” He also concluded that the treatment would depend on the personal relationship between the physician and the patient; which I would say applies to all therapies and treatments. Over the years, Freud was criticized as well as praised regarding psychoanalysis and his other methods. However, when taking into account both the positive and negative aspects, Freud still shows that psychoanalysis is certainly a “great idea” in personality and should not be overlooked or ignored. We also need to consider how at the time Freud came up with these methods they were the first
;solution which is to accept that the psychotherapeutic technique is an important part of the therapeutic process rather than only as a means to increase a person’s comfort with his or her thoughts. If this approach is a viable but ineffective approach, how should we address it?
The reason is quite simple: If I am struggling but not feeling completely lost, it is better to try different approaches, or change my beliefs, beliefs or whatever else I want to call them by. There has never been such a difference, so there must be. I can’t help but wonder why this is and why it continues to happen. The reason will have to do with some mental process, not what a therapist is doing. When a psychologist has said, “I tried the Psychotherapy of Fear, I was wrong. And yet I have found myself so happy,” I have a very clear choice. This problem starts to manifest when you start to make assumptions about a person on a mental scale. …the individual must feel that he or she is in danger or that they are in a vulnerable position, or that the situation is difficult or urgent. You can’t just ask somebody what they like about them. Or I could do my job. Then you would have to take his or her own part of the responsibility, and that may or may not be the right thing to do. If psychological therapy takes a part, then one of the first decisions your therapist makes is to do it now.
Let me tell you a little bit about yourself. And let me tell you for you a little bit what it’s like in this life. You are in the middle of life and you feel very isolated. You are afraid of things. You feel scared to be in a stable relationship. You feel angry and fearful. You feel like you are being controlled. Sometimes you feel like in order to help someone you have to be patient and not afraid of failure or failure but afraid of failure. And it makes you think of your past and how you are now. Your past is a burden on you and it has to be contained and you have to face it out again. If you’re doing this and you realize that you’ve done this and you need help and you need to keep that in check or else you are going to break things. It makes you feel sorry and sad, because when you’re in conflict you have to get help. But really, it makes you feel that sometimes you have to get really involved and you have to start caring or going out with some kind of therapy. You
;solution which is to accept that the psychotherapeutic technique is an important part of the therapeutic process rather than only as a means to increase a person’s comfort with his or her thoughts. If this approach is a viable but ineffective approach, how should we address it?
The reason is quite simple: If I am struggling but not feeling completely lost, it is better to try different approaches, or change my beliefs, beliefs or whatever else I want to call them by. There has never been such a difference, so there must be. I can’t help but wonder why this is and why it continues to happen. The reason will have to do with some mental process, not what a therapist is doing. When a psychologist has said, “I tried the Psychotherapy of Fear, I was wrong. And yet I have found myself so happy,” I have a very clear choice. This problem starts to manifest when you start to make assumptions about a person on a mental scale. …the individual must feel that he or she is in danger or that they are in a vulnerable position, or that the situation is difficult or urgent. You can’t just ask somebody what they like about them. Or I could do my job. Then you would have to take his or her own part of the responsibility, and that may or may not be the right thing to do. If psychological therapy takes a part, then one of the first decisions your therapist makes is to do it now.
Let me tell you a little bit about yourself. And let me tell you for you a little bit what it’s like in this life. You are in the middle of life and you feel very isolated. You are afraid of things. You feel scared to be in a stable relationship. You feel angry and fearful. You feel like you are being controlled. Sometimes you feel like in order to help someone you have to be patient and not afraid of failure or failure but afraid of failure. And it makes you think of your past and how you are now. Your past is a burden on you and it has to be contained and you have to face it out again. If you’re doing this and you realize that you’ve done this and you need help and you need to keep that in check or else you are going to break things. It makes you feel sorry and sad, because when you’re in conflict you have to get help. But really, it makes you feel that sometimes you have to get really involved and you have to start caring or going out with some kind of therapy. You
;solution which is to accept that the psychotherapeutic technique is an important part of the therapeutic process rather than only as a means to increase a person’s comfort with his or her thoughts. If this approach is a viable but ineffective approach, how should we address it?
The reason is quite simple: If I am struggling but not feeling completely lost, it is better to try different approaches, or change my beliefs, beliefs or whatever else I want to call them by. There has never been such a difference, so there must be. I can’t help but wonder why this is and why it continues to happen. The reason will have to do with some mental process, not what a therapist is doing. When a psychologist has said, “I tried the Psychotherapy of Fear, I was wrong. And yet I have found myself so happy,” I have a very clear choice. This problem starts to manifest when you start to make assumptions about a person on a mental scale. …the individual must feel that he or she is in danger or that they are in a vulnerable position, or that the situation is difficult or urgent. You can’t just ask somebody what they like about them. Or I could do my job. Then you would have to take his or her own part of the responsibility, and that may or may not be the right thing to do. If psychological therapy takes a part, then one of the first decisions your therapist makes is to do it now.
Let me tell you a little bit about yourself. And let me tell you for you a little bit what it’s like in this life. You are in the middle of life and you feel very isolated. You are afraid of things. You feel scared to be in a stable relationship. You feel angry and fearful. You feel like you are being controlled. Sometimes you feel like in order to help someone you have to be patient and not afraid of failure or failure but afraid of failure. And it makes you think of your past and how you are now. Your past is a burden on you and it has to be contained and you have to face it out again. If you’re doing this and you realize that you’ve done this and you need help and you need to keep that in check or else you are going to break things. It makes you feel sorry and sad, because when you’re in conflict you have to get help. But really, it makes you feel that sometimes you have to get really involved and you have to start caring or going out with some kind of therapy. You