PSYC 1030H Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Neurology
11 Apr 2017
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Charcot was attracting considerable attention because he was using hypnosis to treat vari- ous types of neuroses: neuroses. Health problems that did not appear to have an organic cause. Trauma was defined as some unpleasant event. Which caused over stimulation of the nervous system. 1 of 3: through psychoanalysis the patient obtained increased self-insight about the origins of the problem, repressed memories were brought to consciousness, this part of ffreud"s theories has long been identified in popular culture as psychoanalysis . Study of dreams: freud"s major psychoanalytic work was his interpretation of dreams (published 1900, in the book he introduces his first model of the mind. Unconscious: this part of the mind is not responsive to our deliberate efforts at recall, contents of the unconscious are threatening, they are kept out of the conscious by the mechanism of repression. Pre-conscious: refers to memories or thoughts that are not currently conscious, but can easily be brought into conscious.
