Psychoanalytic Therapy

1. Submitted to:
Prof. Agnes Montalbo
Rizal Technological University
Submitted by :
Ms. Opalyn V. Calleja
PSYCHOANALYTIC
THERAPY

2. What is psychoanalytic therapy?
It is a philosophy of human nature that
focuses on unconscious factors that
motivate current behaviour.
Attention is given to the events of the
first 6 years of life as determinant of the
later personality.

3. THREE LEVEL OF AWARENESS
 Conscious- part of the mind we are
aware of
Example – how to use mobile phone
 Preconscious- part of the mind that
stores facts which are not conscious but
available for possible use in the future
Example – home address

4.  Unconscious – part of the mind wherein it is
the reservoir of our thoughts, feelings, urges,
and memories that is outside of our
consciousness.

5. What is the aim of Psychoanalytic
therapy?
primary goal is symptom relief,
increased self awareness
improved relationship with other
and the capacity to live a more
deeply satisfying life.

6. Who is the founder of Psychoanalytic
therapy?
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)-
introduced the pychoanalytic
approach in Psychotherapy.

7. Sigmund Freud

8. Key Concept
1.View of human nature - deterministic
were determined by irrational forces,
unconscious motivation and instinctual
drives.
Determinism- tells on the causality
principled applied to psychic occurrence in
which nothing happens by chance or
accidental way.

9. Energy system
Instinct
 Life instinct-sexual drive
‘Life is gaining pleasure and
avoiding pain’
Death instinct- aggressive drive
unconscious wish to hurt others

10. 2. Structure of Personality
 consist of three (3) systems
id (biological component)
ego (psychological component)
superego (social component)

11. ID
Infants are born with id intact
operates on pleasure principle and
avoid pain
it lacks organization,is
blind,demanding and insistent
cannot tolerate tension-functions to
discharge tension immediately
illogically amoral and driven to satisfy
instinctual needs

12. EGO
 the rational level of personality
 operates on reality principle-does
realistic and logical thinking and
formulate plans of actions for
satisfying needs
 the balance between id and
superego

13. SUPEREGO
 operates on moral principles
 able to differentiate between good and
bad;right and wrong
 represents the ideal rather than the
real and strives not for pleasure jt for
perfection
 represents the traditional values and
ideals of society as they are handed
down from parents to children

14. Clinical evidence for
postulating unconscious
1.Dreams- symbolic representation of
unconscious needs, wishes etc.
2.Slip of the tongue
3.Material derived from free
association
4.Material derived from projective
technique
5.Symbolic content of psychotic
symptoms

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