... named Charcot in Paris, who was considering the idea of hysteria (Patterson and Watkins,1996). Hysteria can be described as the root from which psychoanalysis grew and through which Freud produced three systems: ego, id and superego. Freud perceived the ego as a mediator between the id's desire, the superego's moral dictates and the external world. In Freud's words, the ego is a "...poor creature owing service to three masters and consequently menaced by several dangers"(Freud,1923,p.82), hysteria being the product of this conflict the ego continually faces. Freud used psychoanalysis, gradually constructed during the late nineteenth century, in order to explain, examine, ease and eradicate the unconscious conflicts as well as their effects upon the individual. This practice became widely known as classical psychoanalysis, due to modifications and alterations since as early as 1910 (Patterson and Watkins,1996). The dilemma for Freudian psychoanalysis is that although this field produces insightful and theoretically valid results, ...

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