5. Sigismund Schlomo
Freud
Sigmund Freud is an Australian
neurologist who was born on May 6,
1856. He is perhaps most known as the
founder of psychoanalysis. Freud
d e v e l o p e d a s e t o f t h e r a p e u t i c
techniques centered on talk therapy
that involved the use of strategies such
as transference, free association, and
dream interpretation.
6. Why is there a need to
learn more about our
mental health?
7. I n an incre asing ly f a s t - p a c e d w o r l d ,
understanding mental health and wellbeing
has never been more important. Because the
mo de rn w o rld de mands mo re o f o u r
attention, we become disconnected from our
own needs and happiness, leading to a
population where anxiety, depression and
other mental health issues are common.
8. Research shows that high levels of mental
health are associated with increased learning,
creativity and productivity, more pro-social
behaviour and positive social relationships,
and with improved physical health and life
expectancy.
10. Psychoanalysis is a set of theories
and therapeutic techniques that
deal in part with the unconscious
mind, and which together form a
method of treatment for mental
disorders.
12. Basic Tenets
■ Person's behavior
■ Emotional and Psychological
Problems
■ Personality Development
■ Defense Mechanism
13. Therapeutic Techniques
■ Dream Interpretation
■ Free Association
■ Transference
Practice
■ Psychoanalytic sessions (Patient-
therapist face to face interaction)
14. Therapeutic Techniques
■ Dream Interpretation
■ Free Association
■ Transference
Practice
■ Psychoanalytic sessions (Patient-
therapist face to face interaction)
18. CONSCIOUS
q consciously aware stimuli presently around you
at a given point
q communicates to the world and the inner self
through speech, pictures, writing, physical
movement, and thought.
q only level of mental life that are directly
available to us
19. PRECONSCIOUS
q accessible memories
q contains thoughts and feelings that a
person is not currently aware of, but
which can be easily brought to conscious
q easy to retrieve into conscious awareness
20. UNCONSCIOUS
q the most important part of the mind, is the
part you cannot see
q information that you are not aware of, but
impacts and controls your personality
q the primary source of human behavior
23. ID
q present at birth and demands immediate
gratification
q the pleasure principle
q a part of you that is concerned with satisfying
your desires (hunger, thirst, anger, etc.)
q does not distinguish between reality and
fantasy
24. EGO
q reality principle; rationality
q logical aspect of personality
q consists of reasoning, tolerance, memory,
understanding, judgment, and planning
q mostly located in the conscious part
25. SUPEREGO
q ideals and morals
q learned rights and wrongs that control
you
q incorporated from parents
q becoming a person’s conscience
q operates mostly at preconscious level
27. Overemphasis on Sex
q He gives sexual desires or activities as the
cause of neurotic disorders or mental illness.
q Also emphasize on sex in personality
developmental stages (phallic stages).
q Suggested sexual abuse in childhood as
fantasies rather than reality.
q Conveyed that human’s sexuality is based on
feelings of Narcissism, Masochism, and
Passivity.
28. Lack of Falsibility
q His method is totally unscientific, cure totally
depend on information from patient and his
childhood experiences.
q This is unscientific method and accuracy is
not guaranteed.
q His measures/methods were untreatable.
30. Like the rest of us, Freud was a storyteller and,
just like the rest of us, he believed in his stories,
as did others. It’s hard, even impossible, to
come up with a truly unique narrative about
h u m a n b e h a v i o r , b u t F r e u d c e r t a i n l y
integrated many existing ideas and presented
them in a unique way.
31. During a time when there was no Facebook or
even television, books were the currency of ideas
and Freud certainly was able to spread his ideas
through his writings. The man wrote more than 20
books. In so doing he focused popular attention on
the mind and human motivation. He inspired
people to think about thinking and he created the
groundwork for psychotherapy and the treatment
of psychological issues.
32. That’s not to suggest that if Freud hadn’t
lived there would be no such thing as
psychotherapy today, but he was a thought
leader in moving the discussion about the
mind—and therapy—forward. The last
century has seen the most explosive
development in human knowledge and
public access to it.
33. It might be unrealistic, therefore, to think that
any ideas from a hundred years ago,
especially outside the physical sciences,
would completely stand the test of time.
Perhaps it’s a testimony to Freud that he still
has many followers today and that we
continue to discuss his ideas and influence.