Psychoanalysis Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Psychology

Psychoanalysis is considered as a treatment concept that relies on observation that people are often unconscious about various factors that influence their behavior and emotions. Originally the concept of psychoanalysis was developed by Sigmund Freud and later developed and modified by various experienced psychoanalysts. These unknown factors entail the source of considerable unhappiness and distress, where sometimes is acquires identifiable symptom trait and at other times troubling personality characteristic. Those factors may, therefore, cause difficulties in love relationship or the workplace, or mood disturbances and self-esteem. Because those factors are unknown, the advice of family and friend, self-help books, or ...

In the 1960s, following John Bolby’s article The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, many psychoanalytic figures criticised his work. They claimed that attachment theory was “mechanic, nondynamic, and explicated according to thorough misunderstandings of psychoanalytic theory” (Fonagy, 2001, page 1, p2). Critiques felt that Bowlby treated his human subjects like animals, and used too many labels and categories when reporting on experiment results.
When examining the attachment theory today and, in particular, Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation experiment, it does appear that the critiques’ points were valid. The personalities and behaviours of human beings are extremely diverse, ...

The literature review of this study is a comprehensive review of Psychodynamic therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The literature will involve empirical support, description of the available treatment, theoretical aspects as well as historical perspectives of these therapies. The research concurs with the conclusion that CBT is an adequate treatment modality for minimizing symptoms and boosting functional results among the patients with psychodynamic therapy. Thus, makes it a vital framework for clinicians working with clients with psychodynamic symptomology.
The cognitive behavioral theory was developed by Aaron Beck in 1960. Currently, this theory is one of the most frequently used ...

Analysis of the personality traits present in “the Grinch” from Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”

Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” is one of the quintessential Christmas stories in the English-speaking world. It chronicles the story of the Grinch, a green, greedy, cantankerous character who hates the Christmas season and, ostensibly, everything that the Christmas season stands for. On its face, it seems to be a tale about the meaning of Christmas, and the Christmas season, transformed into a fairytale-like format so that children can easily grasp the issues at play in the text. However, upon closer examination, the story of the Grinch contains a vast number of social and psychological clues about the true mental state ...

Edgar Allan Poe is a prominent American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, whose works are popular with the readers all over the globe. The timeless themes of Poe’s stories and the struggles of his characters are indeed remain relevant nowadays. His cocktail of death, love and suffer is of an undying combination. His short stories and poems are sodden with darkness, agony, mystery and obsession of inevitable death, they thrill and excite. The Pit And The Pendulum, The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall Of The House of Usher are only a few of his ...

Introduction

Freud engages in human liberalism through the development of his theory of the mind. He makes an analysis and implication of the unconscious mind. At first, he thought psychoanalysis is a technique used clinically for the treatment of hysteria in the late 19th century. Freud believes that there are three fundamentals tenets to psychoanalysis. His rejection of the Kantian notion of the mind that, the mind grasps its essence fully and completely through critical self-reflection is an important engagement in criticizing human liberalism. He presents his idea that the object (human being) is not aware of the mind. This unawareness ...

Synopsis

Franny and Zoey were written as two different stories, the first being a short story about Franny, a college student dissatisfied with the pretentious American society as epitomized by her boyfriend, Lane. He even pretends he does not remember the letter he was just reading before the train arrived. The events of the story take place at a French restaurant where Lane takes Franny during their date, and the conversation that ensues is indicative of just how the two are different. Lane talks incessantly about his school work and assumes that Franny does not understand some of the words ...