Therapist Style Example: Freud
Here you can see an imaginary profile of Freud.
Comment:
I imagine Freud as a therapist that has a core of Inquisitive as style, always looking for the secrets behind, but not showing his cards too quickly, and not offering solutions or actions. He challenges people and also society with his style, at the same time that follows the client in their process.
I see him as a Sage, as he tries to construct a clear model, fighting to find the truth. He is more in the intensive world than the concrete one, and likes to divide and conquer, more than contain others or complex ideas.
His relationship with the tradition is complicated, and here I put him as a Warrior, as he is trying to find his own path and techniques. However, later he will become a Leader and Coach, depending on the moment of his life.
In the components we can see how he worked with dreams, with sex and gender, and subliminal spaces. He also was connected with the arts and had a concern for the relationship in therapy with the notion of transference.
Philosophically, he was mainly an hermeneutic thinker, exploring the meanings behind, with a side on phenomenology, as he explored lived experience, and for quite a while he tried to be scientific in his logics, to relax about it over time.
Profile:
This example shows an hypothetical therapeutic profile, where the first is the care style, the second a disposition of curiosity and interest, and the third the tension between individuation and tradition.
Your current personal Profile:
Inquisitive
Sage
Warrior
Components
This section shows the main areas of interest and techniques that Freud is interested in. It has five sections of five Components each:
- Subjective: dedicated to the direct experience of a person
- Extended Awareness: areas where we need help to access its influence as happens in a more subtle way
- Context: areas surrounding the person in the experiential field
- Culture: a more abstract area of the context and the social field
- Identity: the concerns that make a person develop as such and promote their growth
Subjective
Extended Awareness
Context
Culture
Identity
Big Traditions
These are the main philosophical traditions behind the psychotherapy. We find sometimes mixes of them, and sub-groups, but they define clear paths relevant today.
This test will help you to recognise your afiliation with some reality assumptions.