Evaluate the contribution made by psychoanalysis to the scientific understanding of human behaviour.

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Essay topic : History and Philosophy of psychology

"Evaluate the contribution made by psychoanalysis to the scientific understanding of human behaviour."

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is the creator of psychoanalysis, a method that is used by qualified psychotherapists to treat patients' symptoms such as neurotic disorders, inner experiences such as dreams and chronic life problems that cannot be accessed in any other way. Freud introduced two books at his early years of study,"The Interpretation of Dreams" and "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life", several analysis and methods are included in those books that will be discussed further here.

Freud focused on "Irma's injection", the famous dream that made him believe that is a key issue for the analysis of dreams and unconscious wishes. In the dream , his patient in real life, Irma was injected with propyl , a chemical medicine and fell ill, Freud from the other hand saw before him the formula for the chemical substance trimethylamin,very vividly printed in heavy type. At the beginning nothing was making any sense or could jointly assume a conclusion but Freud thought that maybe his fellow that had to perform something on Irma in real life