Sigmund Frued Case

Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, and William James were concerned with psychology improving the lives of the individual and less inclined to laboratory research. Through each psychologist's theory, the tone is how one can identify and develop treatment for the many different psychological obstacles an individual encounters. Each place signifies emphasis on the human conscious as the foundation of all behavior. There are many variations in theory focusing on the inception of human behavior and how best to analyze and treat those early behavior symptoms.

Sigmund Freud was born in the Austrian town of Freiberg, which is now known as the Czech Republic, on May 6, 1856. He moved to Vienna when he was four years old. He lived and worked there most of his life. He graduated and received his medical degree in 1881. He was engaged to be married a year later. He opened his own practice after he graduated. He had six children, the youngest his daughter Anna, became a psychoanalyst. He believed all problems of a mental and physical nature comes from childhood experiences.

Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis between 1916 and 1917. Psychoanalysis is for releasing of repressed emotions, feeling, and making the unconscious conscious. Freud experimented with his daughter Anna before working with patients. This method was used on patients that had anxiety and depression. His theory was the human mind has three basic components: the id, the ego, and the superego, and these individual parts often conflict, shaping personality and if not treated, causing neurosis (Goodwin). Sigmund Freud believed there were two drives in a person, the life drive and the death drive. The life drive supports survival by avoiding uncomfortable and life-threatening situations and the death drive exists for extreme pleasure that Sigmund Freud thought led to death. (Goodwin).

Alfred Adler was inspired initially by Sigmund Freud, and co-created the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, he separated only a few years later when he and Freud's different viewpoints collided. Most important, was Adler's commitment to the humanistic perspective. He believed strongly in the social aspects of personality, and disagreed with Freud's inclination to reduce mental issues to unresolved sexual issues or sparring between the id, ego, and superego. Adler separated from "Freudianism" in 1911, "and founded the Society of Individual Psychology in 1912" (About Alfred Adler Website, n.d., P. 5)

Adler's goal in psychological progress involved considering individuals holistically. Adler believed that human existence was a combined condition of internal and external causes and also the individual perception of those causes. Adler referred to one's perception of life experience as "fictional," meaning the story one forms of their experiences, and the way the "fiction" represents itself to influence constantly

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