1.1. Listened to his patients rather than performing experiments, felt many patients' problems were mental and rooted in conflict of childhood. Creator of the so-called "talking-cure".
1.2. Helped to cure sufferers of Hysteria through sessions of using the talking-cure instead of previous methods.
2. PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
2.1. Psychic Determinism: Nature vs Nurture?- causes of behavior found in the mind are innate, biologically based. (sexual and aggressive drive)
3. Free Association- process of saying freely whatever comes to mind in connection with dreams, memories, fantasies, conflicts, etc.
4. Projective Tests- interpretations of an ambiguous stimuli (drawing completion tests, Rorschach tests, thematic apperception tests, etc.)
5. Catharsis- emotional release associated with traumatic memories or repressed impulses.
6. Dream Analysis- the royal road to the unconscious
7. METHODS
8. PERSONALITY STRUCTURE
8.1. Id- operates according to "pleasure" principle, primitive/unconscious part of personality
8.2. Ego- operates according to "reality" principle, mediates between id and superego
8.3. Superego- basic moral ideas, conscience
9. PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES
9.1. Libido- sexual instinct and drive; "I desire".
9.2. Transference- unconscious feeling of love or hate projected onto the analyst
