Which psychological approach does freud belong to?
Freud was the first major psychological theorist to create his own psychological approach. Generally, he is “psycho-dynamic” in the sense that all his work involved the inner mental world (dreams, etc.) and personality (id, ego, super-ego) and mind (conscious, preconscious, unconscious) of the individual. Thus his approach was INTRA-psychic (that is, the mind, or psyche within). Freud was a cognitive THINKER (but his psychology was NOT a cognitive psychology) in that he looked for the inner thoughts and inner mental experiences of the individual. He was not humanistic in any modern sense of psychology either. His first co-worker, Dr. Alfred Adler, co-created psycho-analysis (the analysis of the psyche, or mind) with Freud, starting in 1902. In 1912 Adler left Freud’s circle (the Vienna Psycho-analytic Society, of which Adler was president and journal editor) to form his own approach. He continued in the psychodynamic approach, but added to it the social and communithy and relationshiop
