Tag: Psychoanalysis

These types of errors in cognition are more common than they seem. Failed acts are errors in behavior and cognition, including memory or spoken and written language, which according to the classic approaches of psychoanalysis provide information about the unconscious processes of the person who commits them. In this article we will describe what parapraxias

What do these concepts that Sigmund Freud developed consist of? If there is something that characterizes the psychoanalysis developed by Sigmund Freud, it is the emphasis that it places on the psychological processes that theoretically occur unconsciously and direct our way of acting, thinking and feeling.  Psychoanalysis was born as an attempt to understand human

This theory starts from psychoanalysis to understand how relationships affect personality. Harry Stack Sullivan’s interpersonal theory of personality development is one of the best known in the field of psychoanalysis.  In this article we will describe the main concepts and postulates of this model, whose focus on interpersonal relationships significantly influenced later developments in psychotherapy.

A benchmark of psychoanalysis that created Interpersonal Psychoanalysis. The history of the study of psychology, although of relatively recent beginning, is full of important figures and of different schools and currents of thought. All of them have contributed their vision regarding the psyche and behavior, in some cases opposing each other. Among the different schools

A crisis always involves making an important decision and accepting that everything has changed. The word “crisis” is used in various senses. First, it is necessary to mention that it comes from the Greek word krisis (decision) and krino (to separate); thus, it entails rupture but at the same time hope and opportunity. In turn,

In psychoanalysis, neurotic structure is a concept used to assess signs of distress. The term structure allows us to study the subject of psychoanalytic psychopathology in a comprehensive and simple way. Let us know that the symptoms, (which are the main reason for consultation when someone goes to a psychoanalyst), generally refer to one of

The oneiric has always been surrounded by mystery, but that does not imply that it cannot be studied. Everybody dreams. E l man spends a third of their life sleeping and that third party becomes the least another third of dreaming, and for much of our lives we live in a true dream world.  Both

Carl Gustav Jung gives us his personal vision of the world of dreams. From ancient times to the present day, various cultures have considered dreams as a door to a magical dimension that allows predicting the future or communicating with spirits or other immaterial entities. Many of these beliefs are still part of contemporary popular

Differences between “the unconscious” and the modern unconscious. Scientists and a large part of philosophers have traditionally  considered that human behavior is governed by conscious thought. The belief that we are capable of knowing all the important data about our environment and our body and that we decide how to behave according to this information

From the ideas proposed by Sigmund Freud other conceptions of the human mind emerged. If we think of psychotherapy, the image that probably comes to mind is that of an individual lying on a couch explaining his problems to a psychologist sitting behind him while he takes notes and asks questions. However, this image does