Describe the key ideas of the psychoanalytic approach.

A key idea of the psychoanalytic approach is that much of human behavior is influenced by mental processes that occur below the level of conscious awareness.The psychoanalytic approach proposes that troubling childhood experiences and unacceptable sexual urges lead to unconscious conflicts of the mind.Psychoanalysis is a therapeutic technique that can help a person cope with unconscious conflicts.This technique allows a therapist to help a client bring the contents of his or her unconscious into conscious awareness.