PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Abraham Maslow, Group Dynamics, Cognitive Revolution

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens Pruessner

Document Summary

Freud began working with a patient with neurological disorders and found out that his patient"s paralysis was not always caused by medicinal reason and came to believe that they were caused by psychological factors. He deduced that much of the human behaviour is determined by mental processes operating below the level of conscious awareness, at the level of the unconscious. He believed that these unconscious mental forces, often sexual and in conflict, produced psychological discomfort and in some cases, disorders. Freud pioneered the clinical case study approach and developed psychoanalysis that attempts to bring the contents of the unconscious into the conscious awareness so that conflicts can be revealed and dealt with. He analysed the content of dreams and used free association, a technique in which patients would simply talk about what they wanted for the times that they wanted, believing that patients would reveal the unconscious conflicts causing them problems. He extended his theory for general psychological functioning.