The famous psychologist and psychoanalyst Erik Erikson wrote that an experienced psychotherapist feels the potential of personal growth and development of the patient. The work of the psychologist is to encourage this growth rather than impose the patient his own past experience or vision. Under this angle we must considered the demand of Freud, that [...]

Karen Horney, a successful psychologist and psychotherapist, said that the desire to revise psychoanalysis (that Freud developed) arose from “dissatisfaction of therapeutic results” (1939). In “New Ways in Psychoanalysis” she re-defined the transference and counter-transference of psychotherapy but in “Introspection” she described the process of analysis according to the new paradigm. The psychologist Karen Horney [...]

During the psychological counseling and follow-up psychotherapy, Fritz Perls with his clients found that his theoretical ideas begin to deviate from the concepts of psychoanalysis, which laid and were used by Sigmund Freud. As they went away from Freud, their therapy and understanding of counseling changed and in the end they developed a new way [...]

Psychoanalysis comprises three elements: a method for investigating unconscious thoughts and feelings, the theory of human personality and technique of psychotherapy (treatments for depression, neurosis and other mental disorders). The methods of psychoanalysis have been developed before it was set up comprehensive theory: the theory of psychoanalysis was in the process of continuous development. The [...]

Psychologists and therapists Frederick S. Perls (better known as Fritz Perls) and Laura Perls believed that their contribution to the individual psychology lies in the practice of psychotherapy, rather than a theory. In fact, the lack of rigorous theoretical focus many works of Perls reflect the direction in which they tried to follow in psychology. Fritz [...]