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When Sigmund Freud first developed his psychoanalytical theory as treatment for those people who had mental dysfunctions, he was one of the first analysts to attempt to tackle patients’ head on by developing a series of therapeutic sessions directly with the patients. These sessions are largely based on talking to patients and discovering their repressed feelings that he believes are the causes of the mental disorder. His theory is solely based on the fact that he believes human behavior develops through a series of stages in childhood that largely rely upon the satisfaction of needs in the individual which are mostly sexual. He thinks that if the unconscious mind is unable to control the interpretation of the needs and how to understand them in relation to the real world, then behavioral problems will arise. Once these problems are uncovered with the help of a therapist, then behavior can change. Sigmund Freud is known for his unique ways of curing people with cases of hysteria by psychoanalysis. By definition hysteria is an “excessive or uncontrollable emotion” and can also be classified as a disease or an ailment (dictionary, 419). Once hysteria has taken over a person, the next step to cure him or her is to undergo psychoanalysis, which is “a method of psychiatric therapy in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of feelings and behavior are used to investigate mental and emotional disorders” (dictionary, 677).
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