This text is in reference to: Freud and His Aphasia Book: Language and the Sources of Psychoanalysis Dr. Grossman began his presentation with a...

The psychoanalytic technique of allowing a patient to talk without direction or input in order to analyse current issues of the client.

Experiencing someone emotionally in the present in terms of someone in your past.

The Defense Mechanism is a maneuver employed by the ego to protect itself against anxiety raised by intolerable impulses. All involve some degree...

Traumatic Neuroses are those caused by situations of unusually high stress. They are the sole possible exception to the rule of neuroses being...

Dr. Sigmund Freud is often referred to as the father of clinical psychology. His extensive theory of personality development (psychoanalytical...

Freud's fourth stage of psychosexual development where sexuality is repressed in the unconscious and children focus on identifying with their same...

Freud's third stage of psychosexual development where the primary sexual focus is on symbolism of the genitals.

Developed by Sigmund Freud, this type of therapy is known for long term treatment, typically several times per week, where the unresolved issues...

In Freud's theory of psychosexual development, the failure to complete a stage successfully which results in a continuation of that stage into...

Repression is the operation by which a person repels and keeps at a distance from consciousness representations (thoughts, images, memories) that...

The belief that all animals and all moving objects possess spirits providing their motive force.

The largely unconscious part of the personality responsible for moral self-control -- roughly, the "conscience." Freud says the superego...

Freud introduces the term in the 1895 "Project" to refer to a set of permanently cathected (Psy) neurons which function to inhibit...

Freud borrowed this term from Georg Groddeck's (1923) The Book of the It. Groddeck defines it thus: I hold the view that man is animated by the...

Freud's model of the mind in terms of a balance among systems invested with certain quantities of mental energy is called his "economic"...

This pseudo-Greek term was introduced by Freud's translator/editor James Strachey for the German Besetzung, which conveys the idea of something's...

Mental processes not acccessible to consciousness by direct means, i.e., by turning attention to them. Their existence must thus be inferred...

The entire set of contents of the mind accessible to consciousness but not in awareness at the moment; i.e., what is descriptively unconscious but...

The actual contents of awareness; i.e., what one is conscious of at a given moment. Freud's way of talking about "the conscious" is...