Faulty personality development is the result of inadequate resolution of some specific stage Id, ego, and superego constitute the basis of personality structure. Anxiety is result of repression of basic conflicts. Ego defenses are developed to control anxiety.
Unconscious processes are centrally related to current behavior.
Analytic therapy is not recommended for self-centered and impulsive clients or for severely impaired psychotics. Techniques can be applied to individual and group therapy. The key techniques are interpremtion, dream analysis, free association, analysis of resistance, and analysis of transference. All are designed to help clients gain access to their unconscious conflicts, which leads to insight and eventual assimilation of new material hy the ego. Diagnosis and testing are often used.