ABSTRACT

Forever associated with the name of its founder, the Viennese psychiatrist/neurologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), psychoanalysis became the single most culturally influential school of twentieth-century Psychological thought. Having said that, psychoanalysis is virtually a separate discipline its own right, never taken seriously by many academic, experimental and applied psychologists. The literature on it is vast and the references are thus highly selective. For the main Psychoanalytic concepts, see next entry.