Introduction to the
Psychoanalytic Techniques

As you know, psychoanalysis is mainly interested in exploration of the unconscious mind. In this respect, it applies specific techniques or methods that we wish to present in these pages.

Anamnesis - resembles perfectly to a certain extent the classical anamnesis known in the practice of general medicine. Usually, the interpretation of the biographic (personal) events during the psychoanalytical cure is able to settle the neurotic frame of the individual's psychopathology.

Free Associations Method - This method replaced hypnosis in Freud's therapy. It consists in gathering the free associations produced by the patient during the cure. These associations points to the inner conflicts and repressed drives included in neurotic symptoms. Learn more...

The Interpretation of Faulty Acts (Freudian Slips and Mistakes) - This is a remarkable contribution of Freud to the exploration of the unconscious. For most of us the so-called "faulty acts" - as for instance lapses, slips of all kinds - have no contextual significance for our psychic life. Freud is the first to detect the significance of the faulty acts, starting from the premise, acknowledged in practice, of the determinism of all our psychic processes. Learn more...

The Interpretation of Dreams - The royal road to the (knowledge) of the unconscious, dream interpretation is developed by Freud as an irreplaceable means to access the unconscious. The first dream ever interpreted in Freud's style is the Irma's injection published in hid huge work the Interpretation of Dreams (1900). Learn more...

The Interpretation of Symbols - Symbols occur in dreams, phantasies, fairy tales and other products of popular art, and they may be interpreted in the same way as dreams. Freud claim that most of such symbols are sexual. Learn more...