Psychoanalytic Therapy An Introduction

Freud's view continue to influence conyemporary practice. many of has basic concept are still part of the foundations on which other theorists build and developindeed, most of theorist of counseling and psychotherapy discussed in this article have been influenced by psychoanalytic principles and technique. some of these therapeutic approanches extended the psychoanalytic model, other modified its concept and procedures and other emerged as a reaction agains it. Freud's psychoanalytic system is a model of personality development and an approach to psychotherapy. he gave psychotherapy a new look and new horizons, calling attention to psychodinamic factors that motivate behaviour focusing on the role of the uncoscius, and developing the first therapeutic procedurs for understanding and modifying the structure of one basic's character. It is imposibble to capture in one chapter the diversity of psychodinamic approaches that have arisen since freud. the main focus of this chapter, rather, is on basic psychoanalytic concepts and practices, many of which originated with freud. the chapter skeches therapies that apply classical psychoanalytic concepts to practise less rigorously than he did. the chapter also summarizes erik erikson's theory of psychosocial development. which extends freudians theory in several ways. brief attention is given to carl jung's approach and to contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice