Your friend, martin, is seeing a therapist. martin explained that his therapist and he discuss martin's dreams, blocked memories, and early childhood experiences. martin explains that his therapist believes that unconscious experiences influence his current behavior. on which approach to psychology is your friend's therapist probably basing his psychotherapy?

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20 January, 05:03

Your friend, martin, is seeing a therapist. martin explained that his therapist and he discuss martin's dreams, blocked memories, and early childhood experiences. martin explains that his therapist believes that unconscious experiences influence his current behavior. on which approach to psychology is your friend's therapist probably basing his psychotherapy?

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Lena Franco · Answer 1

Consultant psychological with doctor

Boston Miranda · Answer 2

Psychoanalysis.

Explanation:

His therapist is using a psychoanalysis approach, Freud's theory.

Sigmund Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. According to his theory, all neurotic behaviour or traumas are rooted to the first stages of live, in the childhood, that's why Freud use hypnosis as a tool, because according to him, all the answers were in the unconscious mind.