AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Psychoanalysis is based on Freud’s theory that people can experience catharsis and gain insight into their state of mind by bringing the content of the unconscious into conscious awareness. Through this process, a person can find relief from psychological distress.

Detailed explanation-2: -The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences, i.e., make the unconscious conscious. It is only having a cathartic (i.e., healing) experience can the person be helped and “cured."

Detailed explanation-3: -Free association, a therapeutic method used to investigate the psyche, is a significant feature of psychoanalysis.

Detailed explanation-4: -1890s. The idea of psychoanalysis (German: Psychoanalyse) first began to receive serious attention under Sigmund Freud, who formulated his own theory of psychoanalysis in Vienna in the 1890s. Freud was a neurologist trying to find an effective treatment for patients with neurotic or hysterical symptoms.