PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychotherapy, Frontal Lobe, Collective Unconscious
9 Aug 2018
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Psychoanalytic & psychodynamic approaches to personality: freud published. Treated nervous problems: hysteria, irrational fears, obsessions. Born 18(cid:888)(cid:887) in the same year darwin"s (cid:498)origin of species(cid:499) was. (cid:498)psychoanalytic theories(cid:499) grew out of interactions with patients. Developed psychoanalysis (cid:498)talk therapy(cid:499) probing the unconscious and conflicts, and defences against sexual and aggressive urges can also lead to mental health problems. Personality = early childhood experiences, unconscious motives. Controversial and anxieties: individuals governed by unconscious motives/conflicts, personalities shaped in childhood (determinism), centrality of sexual urges (conflicted with victorian conservatism), assumptions in psychoanalysis i. Freud was a materialist; he ultimately the mind was a physiological process. Mind: the psychological result of mainly the brain"s and partly the rest of the bod"s physiological: conscious: the content of one"s awareness at any given point in time. Conscious awareness are the things you are aware at a particular point in time. functions. unconscious added by jung)
