Term
psychoanalysis
A method of studying and treating the psyche, created by Freud. It looks for unconscious motives through the person's free talk and the interpretation of their dreams, slips and actions.
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Sigmund Freud
Explained in
- The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Sigmund Freud
- The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves, Stephen Grosz
A method founded by Sigmund Freud: a person speaks many times a week, often for years, about whatever comes to mind, while the analyst looks for what the person does not know about themselves.
- I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression, Terrence Real
A method developed by Sigmund Freud: extended conversations seeking the hidden causes of problems in the past and the unconscious.
- The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, Elyn R. Saks
A therapy method involving lengthy conversations with an analyst about thoughts, feelings, and the past. It was one support in Saks’s story: her experience rather than a general recommendation.