Psychoanalysis
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This paper examines one of the fundamental approaches to both individual and family therapy, psychoanalysis. Although professional understanding of the psychoanalytic approach has undergone some essential changes since the theory was pioneered by Sigmund Freud at the end of the 19th century, many of its essential tenets - talking and other communications, interpretation, and transference - remain useful to the modern therapist. It has continued to evolve as counselors have refined its precepts and adapted its techniques to the cases of specific clients. In applying these techniques to family work, the contemporary counselor can use a psychoanalytic approach both to work with the family group as a whole and to work in individual sessions with members needing the additional help of a one-on-one focus. This paper examines the ways in which classical psychoanalysis has been adapted both to newer theories and to the interesting demands of family therapy. It also looks at the approach's potential pitfalls and criticisms, considering both its usefulness as a tool and its limitations.PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE FOUNDATION OF INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY THERAPY From the time that science started to develop theories about the workings of the human mind, scientists were also searching for ways to apply that understanding to a treatment of psychological disorders and disturbances. Even before the existence of the unconscious became widely accepted, human beings struggled with conf
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ntral features of psychoanalysis are part of the appeal of the approach in using psychoanalytic techniques in working with families. She (2002, November 6) writes:
Family therapy has chosen very particular theory influences as the main expression of postmodernist thought, and narrative and social constructionist theory have really dominated the stage in our discussions and understandings of postmodernism. In both narrative and social constructionist ideas, language is central. This fits with the extent to which psychotherapy is a languaged activity, and it certainly has allowed space for thinking about the way in which we come to know our 'selves' in the very particular context of intimate relationships and in our social and cultural environment. The argument in both narrative and social constructionist theory is that we come to that knowledge through language, and that our emotional and social landscapes are constructed in language (p. 9).
During the process of talking and interpreting what is said, transference occurs, as the patient passes on feelings regarding individuals from his or her past onto the therapist. Transference allows the patient to confront what may be powerful feelings and even to recall events previous
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Carmel Flaskas, John Gedo, David Pocock, William Pinsof, Florence Kaslow, Sigmund Freud, Josef Breuer, Harriette Johnson, FAMILY THERAPY, Mary Target, family therapy, hurry 1998, psychoanalytic approach, 2002 november, 2002 november 6, november 6, psychoanalytic technique, individual family, interpretation transference, pinsof 1995, narrative social constructionist, london karnac, psychoanalysis developmental theory, flaskas 2002 november, fonagy target 1998,
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