Psychoanalysis is certainly a unique school in Psychology and is not directly comparable with any of the other schools we discussed.

• Discuss how and why it is unique in terms of its subject matter and methodology.

• It is also unique in terms of where and how it originated. Why? (please explain)

By listening to patients’ stories, fantasies, and dreams, as well as discerning how patients interact with others, psychoanalysts offer a unique perspective that friends and relatives might be unable to see. The analyst also listens for the ways in which these patterns occur between patient and analyst.

Is psychoanalysis a school of psychology?

Psychoanalysis is a school of psychology founded by Sigmund Freud. This school of thought emphasized the influence of the unconscious mind on behavior. Other major psychoanalytic thinkers included Anna Freud and Otto Rank and neo-Freudians such as Erik Erikson, Alfred Adler, and Karen Horney.