20 Facts About Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis was later developed in different directions, mostly by students of Freud, such as Alfred Adler and his collaborator, Carl Gustav Jung, as well as by neo-Freudian thinkers, such as Erich Fromm, Karen Horney, and Harry Stack Sullivan.

Psychoanalysis is a controversial discipline, and its effectiveness as a treatment has been contested, although it retains influence within psychiatry.

Psychoanalysis was later developed in different directions, mostly by students of Freud such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav Jung, and by neo-Freudians such as Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Harry Stack Sullivan.

Psychoanalysis widened the formulation that psychological symptoms were caused by and relieved conflict simultaneously.

Psychoanalysis suggested that distorted and biased beliefs were a causal factor of depression, publishing an influential paper in 1967 after a decade of research using the construct of schemas to explain the depression.

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Psychoanalysis became training secretary for the council, later becoming deputy president to Donald Winnicott in 1956.

Psychoanalysis believed that neurotic people often had unconscious conflicts that involved incestuous fantasies deriving from different stages of development.

Psychoanalysis found the stage from about three to six years of age to be filled with fantasies of having romantic relationships with both parents.

Psychoanalysis can be adapted to different cultures, as long as the therapist or counselor understands the client's culture.

Psychoanalysis applies because Freud used techniques that allowed him to get the subjective perceptions of his patients.

Psychoanalysis takes an objective approach by not facing his clients during his talk therapy sessions.

Psychoanalysis met with his patients wherever they were, such as when he used free association—where clients would say whatever came to mind without self-censorship.

Psychoanalysis's treatments had little to no structure for most cultures, especially Asian cultures.

Psychoanalysis continues to be practiced by psychiatrists, social workers, and other mental health professionals; however, its practice has declined.

The Division of Psychoanalysis has approximately 4,000 members and approximately 30 local chapters in the United States.

The Division of Psychoanalysis holds two annual meetings or conferences and offers continuing education in theory, research and clinical technique, as do their affiliated local chapters.

The Institute of Psychoanalysis publishes The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, maintains a library, furthers research, and holds public lectures.

Institute of Psychoanalysis is the foremost publisher of psychoanalytic literature.

Psychoanalysis concluded that there is little evidence to support the existence of the Oedipus complex.

Psychoanalysis's critics are equally behind the times, attacking Freudian views of the 1920s as if they continue to have some currency in their original form.