I thought it would be helpful to further educate myself on psychoanalysis, I am interested in finding out methods of projection and the general practice of a psychoanalyst as their job is to explore the human mind and in that their identity. As we know psychoanalysis was founded by Freud (1856-1939) who believed the cure of mental health lay between the conscious and unconscious though these are still just theories.
PSYCHOANALYSIS PRACTICE
Some important common presumptions within psychoanalytic psychology are:
- Psychoanalysts view psychological problems as fixed in the unconscious mind
- Issues are manifested through dismissed disturbances
- Issues are typically traced back to unresolved trauma and repressed issues
- Treatment aims to introduce repressed issues to
- Consciousness in the hopes of addressing and confronting the problem directly
Throughout my research I have found therapists possess a variety of methods for psychoanalysis, psychologists such as Freud would talk to their patients about their dreams and child hood memories while encouraging a range of projective techniques: ink blots, parapraxes, free association, interpretation (including dream analysis), resistance analysis and transference analysis.
Important psychoanalytical processes
- Roschorch ink blot – ink blots were used to access areas of the unconcious, the shape means nothing to begin with, it is the viewer that makes sense of the shape and in that psychologists can interpret the state of mind of the patient.
- Freudian Slip – also known as slips of the tongue, this refers to unconscious thoughts and feelings that are accidently revealed when we didn’t mean to say something – according to freud there are no accidents and these are just an insight into our unconcious mind.
- Free Association – this is a psychodynamic technique in which a the patient is required to impulsively speak their mind, this can involve a therapist reading a list of words while the patient rapidly responds with the first word that comes to mind.
- Dream Analysis – Freud: “the royal road to the unconscious.
Freud believed the conscious mind is like a censor, and when we sleep repressed emotions re-surface. I am inspired to exercise these methods within my upcoming workshop with the yr 1 students, I feel by combining a range of these techniques along with the research from my interviews, I’m enabled to conduct a highly beneficial class that will provide my work with great primary research and in depth visual inspiration.
FAYE TIKIC 