Psychoanalysis is a procedure for the treatment of mental and emotional disturbances. Sigmund Freud originated and developed psychoanalysis as a result of his individual researches into the causes of hysteria, one of the common forms of mental illness...

From the perspective of critical masculinity studies, psychoanalytic accounts of gender formation offer one great benefit, which is that they are indeed accounts. Despite Freud’s easily misconstrued assertions equating anatomy with destiny, in...

Psychoanalysis is a form of psychotherapy used by qualified psychotherapists to treat patients who have a range of mild to moderate chronic life problems. It is related to a specific body of theories about the relationships between conscious and...

Carl Jung understood 'masculinity' as a form of consciousness—an essential, instinctive way of assessing and relating that he defined intuitively through the term 'Logos', by which he meant discrimination, judgment and insight into the meaning of...

Constructs Psychosexual development Psychosocial development Conscious • Preconscious • Unconscious Id, ego, and super-ego Libido • Drive Transference • Sublimation • Resistance Important Figures Sigmund Freud • Carl Jung Alfred Adler •...

Dear Editor, Psychotherapy as a non-pharmacological therapeutic intervention plays an important role in mental heath, and its various approaches makes it appropriate for people of differing cultures, subcultures, intelligence, inclinations or potentials. But there is a type of psychotherapy that holds hidden...

Psychotherapy The Future of Psychoanalysis Richard D Chessick. Albany (NY): State University of New York Press; 2007. 265 p. CDNS79.36. Reviewer rating: Good Review by Mary E Yack, MD (FRCPC) Ottawa, Ontario Using his training in psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and philosophy,...

For Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, the seeds of his personality were sown at the earliest stages of his life.At least that's what he would have us think.Seven decades after his death, opinions vary on how well (or poorly) Freud's theories have held up....

Albert Ellis, founder of a renowned psychotherapy institute who is considered by many to be among the most influential figures in modern psychology, died Tuesday, the institute announced. He was 93.The cause of death was kidney and heart failure, The New York Times reported on...

Essay presents a psychoanalytic criticism as formed by Sigmund Freud.