Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939 was an Austrian doctor, he was the eldest of his parent’s eight children.
Freud founded psychoanalysis, the method of treatment to treat mental and nervous disorders, which is not the same as psychodynamic counselling today.
Freud studied medicine at the university of Vienna, where he was influenced by one of his teachers Ernst Brucke, Ernst Brucke believed in the mechanistic approach seeing a person as a machine, determined by physical or chemical causes. Freud moved into neurophysiology (the nervous system and how it functions), where he was influenced by another tutor, Theodor Meynert who studied in neurology and neuropathology (study of diseases in the nervous system).
Freud’s work firstly looked at the causes and treatment of neurosis (minor nervous or mental disorder), in time he expanded his theories and took an interest in the way the human psyche develops from birth onwards. Freud's work mainly concerns the unconscious; …show more content…
an angry child who is angry with his/her parents, this may be displayed in his/her reaction to the counsellor or themselves through introjection i.e. “I am stupid/not worthy of being loved”. The psychodynamic counsellor will let the client talk through their feelings, have the knowledge to recognise defensive behaviour, the understanding to evaluate the key concepts it could be a client might be stuck in one of the psychosexual stages, confront the defence not the client, look at the clients dreams and what the dream means to the client. The aim is to help clients understand a conflict from there past, which helps the client become more self-aware and bring what is unconscious into the