... patient unconscious mind, Freud therefore used this approach. He called this Dream analysis. Freud also believed that many apparent 'accidents' indicated unconscious wishes, therefore he analysed these slips of tongues, which are also now known as Freudian slips or parapraxes. The psychoanalytic approach is centred around the entire human personality which Freud specified the basic structures. Freud became convinced that many of the nervous symptoms, which his patients displayed over the many years he was treating psychiatric patients, could not be explained purely from a psychological/biological point of view. He also believed that rational and systematic laws of science could not be applied to irrational behaviours such as phobias (excessive fears) and hysterias (physical complaints that have no apparent cause). Freud compares the mind to that of an iceberg, suggesting that the tip of the iceberg is the conscious, which is only a small part, bellow the surface lies the ...

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