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I mean, didn't Freud invent the thing where the patient comes and he sits there and listens to the patient for an hour? My very vague impression of the field is
by PowerfulWizard 7y ago
I mean, didn't Freud invent the thing where the patient comes and he sits there and listens to the patient for an hour? My very vague impression of the field is that nobody agrees about the theories and explanations, but everyone follows the basic process he created.
- staticautomatic 7y agoFreud's work grew out of the observation that people are heavily influenced by their subconscious. In the beginning, he tried to access the subconscious by hypnotizing people, but he wasn't very good at it and it didn't work on everyone. Then he tried to access the subconscious through free association, but not everyone is capable of just lying there and freely associating. He ultimately invented psychoanalysis more or less as a way of understanding people who could neither be hypnotized nor free-associate.