Jul 24, Are you a Depth Counselor? This Research Could Amaze You.

All of us in the field of counseling and theories of counseling owe a great debt to the ground breaking work of Sigmund Freud.

Had the unconscious not been discovered, at least the way he discovered it, none of us would have jobs.

Human kind has always attempted to explain behavior and meaning, through tools such as mythology, shamanism, and astrology, but until Freud and his successors, there was never a theory of mind, and certainly no science of helping, no theory of counseling.

It is not my purpose here to discuss the huge amount of controversy and research and the various schools of psychoanalysis, but to provide a beginning point for your own search.

Without Freud though, we would still be doing mesmerization in the parlor.

The following material is from Wikipedia, and the link follows.

"Psychoanalysis is a body of ideas developed by Austrian physician Sigmund Freud and his followers, which is devoted to the study of human psychological functioning and behavior.It has three applications:

1. a method of investigation of the mind; 2. a systematized set of theories about human behavior; and 3. a method of treatment of psychological or emotional illness.