Introduction in Depth Psychology

Today the term “psychoanalysis” is known to everyone as the name of its creator -Sigmund Freud. Freud succeeded to gain popularity among the general reading public. 40 years after his death, the magazine “Newsweek” notes that Freud’s ideas have penetrated so deeply into our consciousness, that “it is difficult to imagine a twentieth century without him.” It belongs to the small cohort of thinkers who were destined to radically change our understanding of ourselves. …[read more]

• The Theory of Sigmund Freud

Freud’s psychoanalytic theory is an example of psychodynamic approach to the study of human behavior. With this approach, it is believed that the unconscious psychological conflicts control human behavior. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, built psychoanalytic concepts almost entirely on his extensive clinical observations on patients with neuroses as well as on psychoanalysis. …[read more]

• The Theory of Carl Gustav Jung

Another remarkable example of a review of psychodynamic theory of Freud is Jung‘s analytical psychology (and in turn, the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy has also undergone a revision.) The main discrepancy between both scientists concerns the nature of the libido. Freud saw the last as the primarily, sexual energy, while Jung regarded the libido as a creative vitality that can contribute to ongoing personal growth of the individual. …[read more]

• The Theory of Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav Jung, the two representatives of the early psychoanalytic movement, principally disagreed with Freud on the key issues and revised his theory of psychoanalysis in completely different directions.Individual Psychology of Adler describes the man as a single, the self and wholeness. …[read more]

• Wilhelm Reich

Like Carl G. Jung and Alfred Adler, disagreed with Freud, creating their own concepts of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, such as his closest associates, psychologists Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) and O. Rank (1884-1939).W. Reich, starting his acquaintance with psychoanalysis in Vienna at the students’ seminar at the end of 1910s, soon began to develop his own concept, reforming, in particular, Freud’s ideas about the nature of neurosis. …[read more]

• Anna Freud

A significant impact on the development of depth psychology had the younger daughter of Sigmund Freud – Anna Freud (1895 – 1982). Although her first investigation in psychoanalysis appeared in the 1930s, the most interesting work as psychoanalyst appeared later. Anna Freud from early childhood have joined the research activities of her father, and served for many years as his secretary. In 1922 made ​​her first scientific paper, and was admitted to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. …[read more]

• John Bowlby

One of the most important concepts for child psychology, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the last years was the “attachment theory” developed by the British psychologist-psychoanalyst and psychiatrist John Bowlby (1907-1990). After graduating at Cambridge University in 1929, he began to work at a school for young offenders. …[read more]