PSYC 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Carl Jung, Word Association, Schizophrenia
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Dislike competition found in formal education made him aversion: solitary and withdrawn as child. Large child for age & interest was atypical for child that age. Didn"t make effort socially didn"t bother him too much. Overly intellectual and nerdy: lots of childhood illness, psychosomatic ones real or fake. Avoid going to school spending time alone or with grandparents: study medicine undertook position in psychiatric hospital, bleuler develop term schizophrenia. Jung expert in assessment and treatment of schizophrenia. Well establish reputation in schizo field in europe. Develop word association task to investigate personality construct he developed: read freud book gave favorable review, began corresponding in 1900, developed a lot of his own theory concept of unconscious. Developing personality theory on his own without freud"s work: meet 1907 freud and jung, like each other instantly, close friendship and mutual admiration, freud someone to carry on psychoanalysis. Theoretical ideal had some similarity but slight differences.
