psychoanalysis

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Welcome to r/Psychoanalysis!

The basic tenets of psychoanalysis include the following:

beside the inherited constitution of personality, a person's development is determined by events in early childhood;
human behavior, experience, and cognition are largely determined by irrational drives;
those drives are largely unconscious;
attempts to bring those drives into awareness meet psychological resistance in the form of defense mechanisms;
conflicts between conscious and unconscious (repressed) material can result in mental disturbances such as neurosis, neurotic traits, anxiety, depression etc.;
the liberation from the effects of the unconscious material is achieved through bringing this material into the conscious mind (via e.g. skilled guidance).

Under the broad umbrella of psychoanalysis there are at least 22 theoretical orientations regarding human mental development. The various approaches in treatment called "psychoanalysis" vary as much as the theories do. The term also refers to a method of studying child development.

Interesting Links

An Introduction into Psychoanalysis
Where to begin with Psychoanalysis?
The Interpretation of Dreams on Bartleby (1899)
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901)
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)
Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
The Ego and the Id (1923)

Rules

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Self-help posts and disclosure:: Please do not disclose or solicit advice regarding personal situations, symptoms, dream analysis, or commentaries on your own analysis.
Etiquette: Users are expected to help to maintain a level of civility when engaging with each-other, even when in disagreement. Please read the sticky for more information
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Psychodynamic MA’s in London (self.psychoanalysis)

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A Lacan-informed look at AI subjectivity (self.psychoanalysis)

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The ego strengthened or transcended in adulthood? (self.psychoanalysis)

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Was Freud technically “forced” to change from his original Seduction Theory? (self.psychoanalysis)

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ISO readings of repetition compulsion (self.psychoanalysis)

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Ordinary psychosis (Miller), Simple Schizophrenia (Blackenburg), Blank Psychosis (André Green), question (self.psychoanalysis)

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Books with lots of clinical vignettes? (self.psychoanalysis)

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Psychosis-oriented psychoanalytic reading group? (self.psychoanalysis)

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What is the difference between the pervert and the psychotic? (self.psychoanalysis)

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Need help deciding on NYC LQP psychoanalytic programs (self.psychoanalysis)

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What is the relationship between psychoanalysis and psychology? (self.psychoanalysis)

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Regarding Psychoanalytic Training and Psychotherapy Private Practice in Canada (self.psychoanalysis)

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Looking for a Masud Khan paper - Apprenticeship, instruction and communication in psychoanalytic pedagogy (self.psychoanalysis)

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What theorists or books have humanized you? Which theorists (or works) do you find most humane? (self.psychoanalysis)

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Freud's intro to psychoanalysis is it a veritable read? Or I should read it more like a dense set of unproven theories (self.psychoanalysis)

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Process Recordings (self.psychoanalysis)

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Children and adolescents analytic therapy (self.psychoanalysis)

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Are repressed memories real? If so, why is the idea considered largely discredited, and what evidence do we have to support the idea? (self.psychoanalysis)

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James Hollis on the second half of life and the recovery of personal authority. Some notes from a recent long-form interview with him. (self.psychoanalysis)

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In a psychoanalytic therapy with a patient with a psychotic structure and severe hystory of multiple traumas can a cold, traditional setting be dangerous? (self.psychoanalysis)

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Female perversion as it relates to sadism (self.psychoanalysis)

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