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The role of repressed childhood conflicts in personality disorders is most clearly emphasized by the ________ perspective.

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It is most clearly emphasized by the Psychoanalytic perspective.

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Psychoanalysis is a branch of Psychology centering on the unconscious; a part of the mind buried deep inside and unnoticed by the individual. It also centers on the idea that infancy is the base model for all the individual's future developments and interaction.

Sigmund Freud is best known for this branch of psychology; he developed the idea that a child's first years of life model the rest of his/her life, his/her relationship with his/her parents, especially with his/her mother and the process of development through the psychosexual stages.

The central idea of this perspective is that one tends to repress certain conflicts in the unconscious mind and tends to act accordingly, without his/her knowledge.

A psychoanalytical therapy centers on the individual freeing this repressed memories through free association, a method by which the patient comes to discover what truly bothers him/her through talking, whilst the therapist listens. This is a more orthodox method.

It also centers on the meanings of dreams.

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