How has Psychoanalysis Changed since Freud?
Psychoanalytic theory and therapy have both evolved since Sigmund Freud. Freud placed his greatest theoretical emphasis on the study of the sexual drives, in particular the Oedipal phase of psychosexual development between the ages of four and six when a child falls in love with a parent. Since the time of Freud, greater emphasis has been placed upon the study of how an individual emerges into the world as a separate person with a sense of himself and positive self-esteem. Current theory also deals with aggression, early mother-child interaction, social relations, family dynamics and psychosomatics.
