PSYC 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sigmund Freud, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Freudian Slip
11 Sep 2013
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Psyc 370 lecture 3 september 20, 2012. Used to control problems that could not be fixed through traditional methods/interventions. Able to suggest to stop smoking habits, start habits, stop sense of smell. The brain registers the stimulus but the subject will not react or will react as the hypnotist tells him to. Dissociation thoughts, feelings, and actions not connected. Correlated with different personality traits, imaginal absorption. James braid wrote about the use of trance states in patients hypnosis . Salpetriere in paris, where lead hypnotist stayed. Discovered male cases of hysteria (which before was thought to be only had by women) Freud visits charcot in the hospital in 1885. Parapraxes freudian slips: incident in which you intend to say or do something but you say or do something different. Developed by freud as a way to explain psychopathology and abnormal developments. Depth perspective primitive elements in personality (i. e. thumb sucking, tantrums)
