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Psychoanalytic Theory Of Sigmund Adler

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Sigmund Freud is the founder of psychiatry who popularized theories of repression, defense mechanism, and the unconscious mind. He is linked to an Austrian medical doctor and psychotherapist Alfred Adler. Freud and Adler collaborated in the development of psychoanalytic theory, but the relationship became strained and they parted ways after 8-10 years.” (Corey) Adler rejected Freud’s focus on the sexual nature and impact it had on the human psyche. Adler believed Freud’s preoccupation with sexuality reduced human nature to a single motivating factor. Although Freud had a lot to do with Adler’s growth, Adler fought to replace Freud’s focus on sexual motivation with his own concept of the inferiority complex. Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Freidberg Moravia, known today as the Czech Republic. When he was four his family packed up and moved to Vienna where he would live and work for most of his adult life. He received a medical degree in 1881 and was engaged to Martha Bernays the following year, they would go on to have 6 kids together. After Freud’s medical degree he set up a private practice and began treating various psychological disorders. He considered himself a scientist first and a doctor second. Freud’s mentor was Josef Breuer, who had “developed talk therapy and laid the foundation for psychoanalysis.” (Good therapy) After studying Breuer’s work he came up with the hypothesis that neuroses had ties with deeply traumatic experiences that had

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