TY - BOOK AU - Fayek,Ahmed TI - The Clinical Application of the Theory of Psychoanalysis SN - 9781849409223 (electronic bk.) PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Karnac Books KW - Psychoanalytic counseling KW - Psychoanalytic theory KW - Psychology KW - Psychoanalysis N2 - Psychoanalysis - the one that we are familiar with - started in the clinical field. Freud and Breuer made some strides in the treatment of hysteria using hypnosis. They put together a theory of psychopathology based on two basic notions: conflicts between acceptable and unacceptable impulses (ideas, desires, fantasies, etc.), and the repression of the unacceptable impulses causing the formation of symptoms. Under hypnosis, the patients were given the chance to abreact the repressed, and the therapeutic endeavour was to allow catharsis, hence the origin of the term "catharsis theory" regarding UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?custid=ns123844&authtype=ip,shib&direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=388447 ER -