Unconscious mind

Freud’s theories are based upon repressed memories, the unconscious mind and psycho-sexual stages of development.  These theories remain controversial from first introduction of his ideologies to current time, (Mitchell, Black, 2016).  Freud, much like Shakespeare, was not afraid to shy away from taboo subjects and tragic endings. Shakespeare demonstrates several examples ranging from Freud’s various defense mechanisms such as the unconscious transference of certain feelings, attitudes or impulses

childhood events had a great and powerful impact on the teenage and adult mind in later years to come. Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in 1939. He had a great desire to find treatment for psychopathology that all began with a great deal of time spent at Theodor Meynert’s Psychiatric Clinic. His time spent here was what created his desire to help people and find new ways to help people come to peace even within their own minds. Initially Freud used hypnosis as his technique, but later abandoned

to look at the human mind by observing and taking note of the conscious and unconscious mind and how those thoughts could reflect human behavior. Freud also emphasized the importance of early life experiences and how they shape the human mind and behaviors. In my opinion, I believe that Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality would be the most practical approach for me to utilize in a counseling situation. His theory identifies many aspects of the conscious and unconscious while exploring different

dreams can be a way the brain organizes and analyzes the day to day events during sleep. Everyone dreams, however, not everyone remembers their dreams. The psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, theorized that dreams bury themselves in unconscious emotions and as we sleep our mind releases these emotions in the form of dreams. He also theorized that dreams are ways in which people act out suppressed desires. The Interpretation of

believe that genetics are responsible for personality. Behavioral theories suggest that personality is the reason for interaction between others. Psychodynamic theories are mostly based on the works of Sigmund Freud. These theories state that the unconscious mind and childhood has effects in personality. Humanist theories believe that the ability to be free and have experience on one’s own effects personality. The final personality theory it the Traits theories. This theory states that personality is

and also a theory which explains human behavior. Psychoanalysis is often known as the talking cure. Typically Freud would encourage his patients to talk freely (on his famous couch) regarding their symptoms and to describe exactly what was on their mind” (McLeod). On May 6, 1856, Sigismund Freud was born in the Moravian Hamlet of Freiberg, which today is Pribor in the Czech Republic. His name would later be changed to Sigmund when he was twenty-two years old (Schultz. 2004). Freud was born into a

psychological models” (Comer, 2011, p. 37). Psychodynamic theorists believe that people’s behaviors are driven by underlying psychological forces; these forces come from the unconscious mind (Comer, 2011, p. 37). He developed what is known as psychoanalysis: “a way to treat certain mental illnesses by exposing and discussing a patient’s unconscious thoughts and feelings” (Sigmund). Freud was a heavy believer in hypnosis which he learned most from Joseph Breuer; Breuer claimed that he successfully treated a woman

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, takes the audience on a wild and confusing ride through the human unconscious. From the play within the play, to fairies causing mayhem, what is to be considered reality? The notion of falling asleep and dreaming is introduced over and over in the play, and leaves the audience wondering, is any of this real? Throughout this paper, I will attempt to explain the parallels between Shakespeare’s work, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the work of the Austrian

developed by Sigmund Freud at the end of the nineteenth century and was one the very first integrated approaches to psychotherapy (Hergenhahn, 2000). Psychoanalysis works predominantly with the unconscious level of the mind and assumes that most mental disturbances stem from problems connected to the unconscious (Hough, 2012). On the other hand, the theory behind person centered therapy, developed by Carl Rogers mid-twentieth century, states that any person is able to find the resolution to his or her

knowledge of mythology, religion and theory, and was especially educated in the imagery associated with customs, amongst others, alchemy, Kabala, Buddhism and Hinduism. Using this tremendous information, Carl Jung trusted that people encountered the unconscious through various images experienced in different parts of life, for example, dreams, arts and religion. While his theory has various reviews, Carl Jung's work has left an outstanding effect in the field of psychology. His ideas of introversion