PSYC 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychoanalytic Theory, Unconscious Mind, Hydrotherapy
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Freud hypothesize that symptoms had meanings o or meaning in person"s life. Not just psychological to a particular symptom & symptom had symbolism. Mother return to work & starting kindergarten and preschool. Significance of the clock passage of time she"s resisting in some way . Get back at mother link to sis"s pregnancy & dethronement o. Nursery rhythm = mouth anxiety from separating from parent = early childhood separation having more independence abuse symptoms & problems stealing, shop lifting , eating disorder. Clock is often represented by grandfather clock = phallic symbol sexually. Doing a lot of oral thing oral fixation bulimic = involving in mouth and eating. Anorexia younger women conflicted around sexuality by o restricting caloric intake body remain immature more skeletal then mature body. Look down upon by neurologist no underline biological damage. & neuroscience hard to treat & resisted improvement. Psychoanalytic theory was a way of explaining psychopathology treatment.
