Psychoanalytical theory

Psychoanalytical Theory Kelly is a 26 year old woman; she has anxiety and has problem with her boss, or male authority. Every time Kelly is confronted by her boss she suffers from an anxiety attack. For instance, the other day when Kelly was talking to her friend, and her boss asked her to come in his office, she then suffered from a panic attack. The goal of the Psychoanalytical Theory is to make the clients aware of their unconscious impulses, desires and fears that are causing the anxiety. Psychological disturbances are due to hidden conflicts arising from the unconscious. Unconscious means the part of the mind that contains material of which we are unaware but that strongly influences conscious process and behaviors. There are three different methods for treatment; first there is Free Association and next is Dream Analysis and finally Transference. Dream Analysis is techniques were the psychoanalyst interprets the client’s dream to find out about unconscious thoughts and feelings. This technique helped Kelly more than Free Association. Her dreams were about her boss going up her apartment stairs and banging on the door until she answered and then he turned into a clown. The psychoanalyst believed that she was thinking about her boss being her dad. Transference is the process experienced by the patient, of feeling toward the analyst the way the clients felt for some other important figure in their life. Instead of experiencing and understanding her feeling, the patient simply begins acting toward the therapist in the same way she used to act toward the important person, usually one of her parents. The therapist always directs the patient back to herself. They questions the therapist might ask are “What do you see when you imagine my face?” When Kelly’s therapist asked her this she answered angrily. The next question asked was ”What does this make you think of?” Kelly is reacting to the neutral therapist as if they were her threating father.