One of Sigmund Freud's patients labeled his therapy "the talking cure." Why? What was Freud's goal and what techniques did he use to achieve it?

What will be an ideal response?

Answer: A good answer will include the following key points.
• Psychoanalysis as Freud used it was called "the talking cure" because clients were encouraged to come for treatment several days a week, often for years, and talk about their dreams and their memories of childhood.
• Freud believed that intensive analysis of these dreams and memories would give patients insight into the unconscious reasons for their symptoms.
• With insight and emotional release, he believed, the person's symptoms would disappear.
• In addition to analyzing dreams and memories for clues to the unconscious, Freud also used techniques such as identifying transference—the client's transfer of emotional elements of his or her inner life onto the therapist—to help patients to identify and work through issues.