School of thought

The foundational approach to psychoanalysis developed by Sigmund Freud and his immediate followers.

Founders: Sigmund Freud

Classical Psychoanalysis

Key principles

  • Unconscious mental processes
  • Psychosexual development
  • Transference and countertransference
  • Dream analysis
  • Free association

Theories in this school

Arlowian Theory · Freudian Psychoanalysis

Psychologists connected (authors and contributors)

Jacob A. Arlow · Sigmund Freud