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The 97 pages that link to Psychoanalysis, each with the reason it gives.

• Cognitive behavioral therapyCompared with: Its long-term, interpretive tradition differs from CBT’s typically time-limited, skills-focused format.

• PsychotherapyBroader topic: It was the first influential systematic talking treatment and remains a distinct tradition.

• BehaviorismCompared with: It assigns causal importance to hidden mental life that strict behaviorism brackets.

• Sigmund FreudNarrower topic: Freud founded this approach and developed its central concepts.

• HermeneuticsRelated: Psychoanalytic interpretation treats expressed meanings as potentially shaped by unconscious motives.

• FalsifiabilityCompared with: Popper used some psychoanalytic explanations as examples he considered compatible with too many possible outcomes.

• StructuralismCompared with: Psychoanalysis centered processes largely inaccessible to the conscious introspection structuralists studied.

• Theodor W. AdornoRelated: Adorno drew on Freud to analyze how social authority takes hold in individual psychology.

• Frankfurt SchoolRelated: Frankfurt School theorists combined Freudian ideas with social analysis.

• Carl JungCompared with: Jung’s analytical psychology began in dialogue with psychoanalysis, then rejected several Freudian emphases.

• Frantz FanonRelated: Fanon adapted psychiatric and psychoanalytic ideas to analyze the psychological effects of racism.

• PsychiatryCompared with: It shaped psychiatry historically, but is a distinct approach rather than the whole medical specialty.

• Dream interpretationNarrower topic: Dream analysis became one of its characteristic methods for exploring unconscious conflict.

• Judith ButlerNarrower topic: Butler draws on and critiques psychoanalytic accounts of gender formation and desire.

• Clinical psychologyRelated: It strongly influenced early psychological explanations and forms of therapy.

• Free associationNarrower topic: Free association is one of psychoanalysis’s principal methods for exploring unconscious material.

• Humanistic psychologyCompared with: Humanistic psychologists resisted its emphasis on unconscious conflict as an account of the whole person.

• PsychologyCompared with: Its clinical and interpretive tradition differs from psychology’s broader empirical approaches.

• RepressionNarrower topic: Repression became one of psychoanalysis’s defining concepts.

• Anna FreudNarrower topic: Anna Freud extended this framework to children and developed its account of the ego.

• The Second SexRelated: Beauvoir engages and criticizes psychoanalytic explanations of women’s development and sexuality.

• Behavior therapyCompared with: Its emphasis on unconscious meaning contrasts with behavior therapy's focus on observable change.

• Personality psychologyCompared with: It explains personality through hidden motives rather than primarily measured trait dimensions.

• SubconsciousNarrower topic: This tradition made hidden mental contents central to psychological explanation.

• Oedipus complexNarrower topic: The complex became a central element of classical psychoanalytic theory.

• Erik EriksonNarrower topic: Erikson adapted psychoanalytic ideas while giving social experience a larger role.

• Alfred AdlerCompared with: Adler’s school emerged from psychoanalysis but gave social belonging and conscious goals greater weight.

• Analytical psychologyNarrower topic: Analytical psychology grew from psychoanalysis but broadened its account of unconscious life.

• Erich FrommNarrower topic: Fromm trained as a psychoanalyst and adapted its account of personality to social conditions.

• Person-Centered TherapyCompared with: Unlike classical psychoanalysis, person-centered therapy does not make interpretation of unconscious conflict its central method.

• Psychosexual developmentNarrower topic: Psychosexual development is one part of Freud’s broader account of the mind.

• Viktor FranklCompared with: Frankl accepted the depth of unconscious life but rejected reducing human motivation to instinctual drives.

• DSM-IIICompared with: DSM-III avoided committing its diagnostic categories to psychoanalytic explanations.

• Karen HorneyNarrower topic: Horney trained in this tradition before rejecting parts of Freud’s account.

• The History of SexualityRelated: Foucault situates psychoanalysis within modern practices for eliciting sexual truth.

• Abraham MaslowCompared with: Maslow sought a psychology that also examined health and growth, not only conflict and pathology.

• Art therapyNarrower topic: Psychodynamic theories shaped early explanations of images and symbolic expression in art therapy.

• Consciousness-raisingCompared with: It focuses on individual psychic life rather than collective analysis of social structures.

• Gayle RubinRelated: Rubin draws on Freud and Lacan to examine how people acquire gendered identities.

• Projection (psychology)Narrower topic: Projection originated as a psychoanalytic explanation of how unconscious conflict shapes perception.

• Surrealist automatismNarrower topic: Surrealists drew on its account of unconscious thought while pursuing artistic ends.

• Continental philosophyRelated: Continental thinkers used psychoanalytic ideas to question conscious agency and subjectivity.

• Eugen BleulerRelated: Bleuler incorporated psychoanalytic concepts into his interpretation of symptoms and associations.

• John BowlbyNarrower topic: Bowlby trained in this tradition, then challenged its account of early relationships.

• Julia KristevaNarrower topic: Kristeva reworks psychoanalytic ideas to explain language, identity, and bodily boundaries.

• LogotherapyCompared with: Frankl contrasted its emphasis on pleasure and past conflicts with logotherapy’s focus on meaning.

• Slavoj ŽižekNarrower topic: Žižek turns psychoanalytic accounts of unconscious desire into tools for social criticism.

• SuperegoNarrower topic: The superego became a major construct in psychoanalytic explanations of symptoms and behavior.

• CatharsisRelated: Early psychoanalytic treatment recast catharsis as release through bringing painful memories into speech.

• Existential psychotherapyCompared with: Existential therapy may explore the past, but foregrounds present choices and ultimate concerns.