Sigmund Freud Case

He was born May 6, 1856 year in Freiberg, Moravia (now Pribor). In 1860 the family moved to Vienna. Freud studied Medicine at the University of Vienna, then at the Institute of Physiology, and attended lectures in psychiatry. He received the title of professor of medical science. Together with J. Breuer began research on hysteria using the method developed by treatment with disclosure and rebound in hypnosis unconscious patient experience. After 1,895 years, began to use their own therapeutic method, based mainly on the analysis of free associations, dreams, memories. At that time he announced his theory of neurosis. It was a summary of previous clinical observations of Freud, initiated the development of a system of psychoanalysis. In 1902 Freud was appointed professor at the University of Vienna, since then widely developed and popularized psychoanalysis, which soon gained international acclaim. In 1938, after the seizure of Austria by Nazi Germany, he emigrated to the UK.

Freud's views underwent constant evolution can be divided into three phases:

I - to 1900 - Freudianism was the main theory of the formation of mental disorders.

II - to around 1920 - went beyond the boundaries of psychiatry, has become a general theory of the structure and functioning of the human psyche, assigning a central role in the regulation of mental life unconscious mechanisms, especially sexual impulse life, remaining in constant conflict with what requires us to society, to which we restrict the moral norms "embedded" in the psyche of the individual in the course of education

III - after 1920 - to extend and generalize the doctrine of a peculiar conception of man and culture.

Freud's theories of the early aroused both enthusiasm and sharp criticism. Accused them biologism extreme, exaggerating the role of sex drive, underestimating the role of the environment, the environment as a factor in personality development. Freud was the first who pointed out that the unconscious and irrational processes may play an important role in motivating human behavior, the first also took up the problem of personality development and noted that the experience of early childhood can affect the psyche of an adult. Freud also created the basis of modern psychology theory of motivation (among others by introducing concepts such as frustration, fixation and regression). Widely considered to be the father of modern psychotherapy for many of his observations is strengthened by in contemporary psychological research.

Psychoanalysis - in the broad sense of the theoretical concept explaining the structure, operation and development of the human personality, as cultural phenomena, the action of unconscious psychic forces remaining in constant conflict. Theory was formulated by Freud and developed by his disciples. According

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