Psychoanalysis

Maya & Nathan
 * Psychoanalysis**

Psychoanalysis has three different aspects ot it. 1. It is an investigation of the mind. 2. Different theories on human behavior. 3. Or a method or treatment of emotional or psychological problems.

The analyst (doctor) will try the method of confronting and clariying the patients problem. The doctor will be able to figure out that the patient is actually his own enemy, because the dreams usually come from a past event in his life, and that the solution is quite simple by just moving on, or accepting the truth.

Started by Sigmund Freud in the 1890's, psychoanalysis was used escpecially during the WWI period because ot the traumatizing events that would take place on the fronts, or while during battle. Freud believed that by bringing up the topics that were most hard to talk about, or were more graphic, would help the patients. It was to help the soldiers at the mental hospitals because, they would talk about their most horrifying dream, or memory form the war, and hopefully it would have been the source/target of their problem. Then, by figuring out the main problem, the soldier will then soon be able to recover from the problem and be able to go back to the war and continuing to fight. That was the main reason for those sessions and doctors, was to get the soldier sbetter so that they could go back out and fight. Each country needed all of the soldiers that they could get, they needed them to be able bodied, and right in the head. Not just to get back in the war, but also so that they can face their fears, and go back to leading a somewhat normal life. After experiancing all of those events, no soldier will ever come back home the same person, but with the psychoanalysis, it was a goal to try and help the patient to have them be able to go foward with their life, rather than spend the rest of their days, living in pain and fear. In the book//, Regeneration//, the doctor Rivers is trying to work with his patients at Craiglockhart to get them facing

The analyst’s work includes confronting and clarifying the patient’s problem. Through the work of analysis the doctor can find the problem and find out that the patient is actually his own worst enemy because the dreams are coming from past times in his life and the resolution is simple if the patient can just either forget the past or face the nightmare and conclude that’s it’s the truth and just move on. These dreams usually include past times from wars or when they were abused as a kid.