ABSTRACT
Janet called what he did 'psychological analysis', Freud called what he did 'psychoanalysis', and Adler called it 'individual psychology'. Jung used the term 'analytical psychology', but there is no doubt which one had the catchiest brand name. For a while, psychoanalysis was to psychotherapy as Hoover was to vacuum cleaner. In her book The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1937), Anna described state-of-the-art psychoanalysis as it was in 1936. In the early days of psychoanalysis, the aim was to uncover the childish, sexual, and aggressive wishes hidden in the unconscious, and make them available to be dealt with by the conscious mind. In her book, Anna Freud described how psychoanalysis was effective in drawing out our defences so they could be dealt with and, eventually, given up. The process took place through free association, something the patient had to agree to from the very beginning of the session.
