PSYCO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anal Stage, Conscientiousness, Humanistic Psychology

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In early psychiatry, all ailments were thought to be strictly physical in nature. However, freud provided evidence that some maladies may be better thought of as in the mind of the sufferer . Suppose someone, while experiencing an anxiety attack, reports a sense of numbness and tingling in the hand. Doctors would primarily try to link such symptoms to physical causes like nerve damage. Possible mental explanations were typically overlooked: anna o. Anna o was a famous psychological patient. She was diagnosed as a hysteric and had many bizarre symptoms. However, none of these symptoms could be linked to physiological causes. Anna o showed symptoms including language disorders, phantom pains, paralysis, mood changes, amnesia, yet doctors were unable to find physiological reasons for these symptoms to occur: the talking cure. Sigmund freud noted that hypnotic questioning, and in some cases merely discussing life problems, often resulted in the disappearance of symptoms and a sense of catharsis.

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