How Useful Is The Psychoanalyt

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This will be reviewed in greater depth later. There are many others paradigms in the field of psychopathology such as, conspirational model, sociotherapeutic, family interaction, moral and psychedelic models.
There are many different psychoanalytic techniques, which would take a whole essay solely reviewing them. This is why in this essay I will be concentrating on the fundamental theories created by Sigmund Freud of which all psychoanalytic techniques have their fundamental basis in.

Freud’s classical psychoanalytic theory viewed the structure of the minds' psyche in three major parts, the id, ego and super ego. Which he termed as the ‘Mental Apparatus’. These parts together became the persons whole.

The id is the basic animal instincts of the person. Because it has its own source of energy it has no need for external influences, therefore it exists for instinct gratification of itself. Freud termed this as the pleasure principle. These urges consisted of the need for ...

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