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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.

Today I experienced a performance by OddArts, this organisation performs activites, workshops and plays to settle societal and social conflicts.

The session began by discussing up-bringing in relation to identity, after the speaker called a statement, we would either stand left, or right to signify our views; some were aksed why they were stood there and why they feel that way – I felt this was a great experience for my work as I could gain insight into peoples understanding of themselves in relation to influences and up-bringing and how this affects societal views and personality later in life.

I was quite vocal in the discussion, I added words such as identity and influence to see how this would drive the conversation though remained reserved enough to listen to others input – most people in the group didn’t believe upbringing and early influence effect personality – I disagree. I didn’t think much about how others affect our sense of self but I feel this concept is important in the make up of identity and in that it is relevant to my work.