The Unconscious

For this weeks lecture we had two physcho analyists, Liz Monahan and Brian O'Connor who came into us. They explained what physcho analyists do and how they are different to therapists. Physcho analyists work with people to unravell their problems, it is more about what they dont say that they try to understand and come up with a reason or solution.

They spoke about a man, Singmund Freud. He has written books 100 years ago on this subject. Freud invented psychoanalysis and the method of understanding The Unconscious.
 

One of freuds first patients was Anna O, her symtoms were halluciations, word salads, cough, lost a limb, became paralysed. Whern she would speak it woudnt make sense but when you thought of it you nwould be able to see what she was trying to say. One of her sentences was "wood-dead cousin", her father had just died and her cousin had came for funeral and had collect wood for the fire. Freud tried to see if he could help her. The only way to unravel a symthom is to talk about it.

Liz and brian explained to us about our mind, there is only a small part of out mind that is open. The tip of it is called "The superego" which is our conscience and then the other part id out "ego" but underneath all that is our "Un concious" we are not open to that ourselves.

Here is a link of the Prezi that Liz and Brian used http://prezi.com/69ajnnur13ie/st-a/