#290 | Sigmund Freud | Father of Psychoanalysis
English Learning for Curious Minds
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Freud's Talking Therapy
Freud was captivated by this focus on talking, and it certainly influenced his own practice. He stopped using hypnosis and focused purely on listening to patients who would talk to him while lying on a couch. The premise was that s could recall experiences or emotions from their past that had been hidden in their unconscious. By talking openly about these a patient could confront and overcome them. Frid would continue to refine this practice over the next few years and use himself as a test subject. Following the death of his father, freud believed the emotions he felt following this loss were a result of repressed feelings surrounding experiences in his own childhood. To further his analysis, freud turned to his dreams
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