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Psychoanalytic Method refers to the means to bring forth unconscious motives and conflicts into the consciousness.
Psychoanalytic theory refers to Freudian theory of personality that emphasizes unconscious forces and conflicts. In criminology, Psychoanalytic theory is a theory of criminality that attributes delinquent and criminal behavior to a conscience that is either so overbearing that it arouses excessive feelings of guilt or so weak that it cannot control the individual's impulses.
Psychoanalytic Therapy refers to Freudian technique of exploring unconscious motivations, conflicts, and repressed emotions for a prolonged period of time. Psychoanalytic Therapy is an alternative to Biomedical treatment.
Psychoanalytically oriented therapy means in Clinical child psychology and Pediatric psychology, the modification of the Psychoanalytic approach to account for children's inability to adhere to the traditional requirements of analysis or to deal with the highly abstract nature of analysis as usual. Psychoanalytically oriented therapy, in general teaches children that certain behaviors are really defenses against anxiety and helps them to successfully negotiate their developmental stage.
Psychobiology is the attempt to explain psychological phenomena in terms of their biological foundations.
Psychobiosocial model is the perspective on nature/nurture interactions specifying that specific early experiences affect the organization of the brain, which in turn influences one’s responsiveness to similar experiences in the future