In this video I describe Freud’s psychosexual stages of personality development. Each of the stages has a focus of pleasure and a conflict which needs to be resolved. Failure to …
Levels of Consciousness
In this video I describe different levels of consciousness that we have based on our level of access to different types of information. These include conscious, preconscious, subconscious/unconscious, and nonconscious …
Psychoanalytic and Humanistic Approaches to Therapy
Psychoanalysis Freud’s psychoanalytic approach to treatment was based on gaining insight into the unconscious. A combination of free association, dream analysis, and interpretation (sometimes called the “talking cure”) was used …
Freud’s Personality Structure
Freud proposed a structural organization of personality with three main components; the id, the ego, and the superego. The id was the raw animal drives of the personality. These included …