Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that seeks to elucidate connections among unconscious components of patients' mental processes, and to do so in a systematic way through a process of tracing out associations. In classical psychoanalysis, the fundamental subject matter of psychoanalysis is the unconscious patterns of life as they become revealed through the analysand's (the patient's) free associations. The analyst's goal is to help liberate the analysand from unexamined or unconscious barriers of transference and resistance, that is, past patterns of relatedness that are no longer serviceable or that inhibit freedom. More recent forms of psychoanalysis seek, among other things, to help patients gain self-esteem through greater trust of the self, overcome the fear of death and its effects on current behavior, and maintain several relationships that appear to be incompatible.

References

• Berman, J. (2003). . Psychoanalytic psychology, 20(3), 575-578.
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• Corey, G. (2001). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy. (6th ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole Thompson Learning
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• Kramer, Peter D., Listening to Prozac : A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self ISBN 0670841838.
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• Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction by Anthony Elliott, an introduction that explains psychoanalytic theory with interpretations of major theorists http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=03339191
• The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason, by Ernest Gellner. A critical view of Freudian theory. ISBN 0810113708
• Mitchell, S. & Black, M. (1995). Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought
• Wachtel, P. (1989). Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Toward an Integration. New York: Basic Books.

Online papers about psychoanalytic research

• Blatt, S. & Shahar, G. (2004). Psychoanalysis: With whom, for what, and how? Comparisons with psychotherapy
• Brakel, L. (2005). The psychoanalytic assumption of the primary process: Extrapsychoanalytic evidence and findings
• Fonagy,P.(1997) Attachment, the development of the self, and its pathology in personality disorders
• Freedman, N, Lasky, R., & Hurvich, M. (2001), Transformation Cycles as Organizers of Psychoanalytic Process: The Method of Sequential Specification
• Masling, J.(1999). An Evaluation of Empirical Research Linked to Psychoanalytic Theory
• Shaver, P. & Mikulincer, M. (2002). Attachment-Related Psychodynamics.
• Solms, M. (1999). The Interpretation of Dreams and the neurosciences
• Wallerstein,R.(2002). Psychoanalytic Therapy Research:An Overview
• Westen, D. (1999) The scientific status of unconscious processes: Is Freud really dead?
• Westen, D. Towards a clinically and empirically sound theory of motivation
• Wilczek, A. et al. (2005). Change after long term psychoanalytic psychotherapy
• Bulletin of the Psychoanalytic Research Society
• Psychoanalytic Research Consortium

Critiques of psychoanalysis

• Erwin, Edward, A Final Accounting: Philosophical and Empirical Issues in Freudian Psychology ISBN 0262050501
• Gellner, Ernest, The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason. A critical view of Freudian theory. ISBN 0810113708
• Grünbaum, Adolf, The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique ISBN 0520050177
• Macmillan, Malcolm, and Frederick Crews, Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc ISBN 0262631717