Psychoanalysis.

First and foremost, the term designates the method of psychiatric treatment created by Sigmund Freud, who coined the term in two publications of 1896: Weitere Bemerkungen über Abwehr-Neuropsychosen (Further Remarks on the Neuro-Psychoses of Defense) and L'hérédité et l'étiologie des névroses (Heredity and the Aetiology of the Neuroses), the latter a treatise written in French, in which he depicts "a new method of psychoanalysis." As a specific method of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis presupposes a relation between the psychoanalyst and the patient in which the patient manifests the contents of his unconscious through free association, and the psychoanalyst engages in the interpretation of these contents. In the psychoanalytic situation as described by Freud, there is no attempt to influence the patient by suggestion or hypnosis.