PSYC 2490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Delayed Gratification, Two-Face, Libido

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2490
• Professor: Leda Worobec

Document Summary

Spurred by the introduction of phenothiazines: phenothiazines: treated the more flagrant or apparent features of schizophrenia, delusions, hallucinations, more overt symptoms. The moral treatment movement: pinel and dix. Thomas szasz: the myth of mental illness: poverty, societal stress, and institutionalized prejudice and discrimination. If its not what society wants and expects from you, then you are socially deviant and have a mental disorder and need to be treated: mental illness - metaphor for human problems in living. Id and superego: uconscious, difficult to retrieve material well below surface of awareness. Id is most below - the pleasure principle, instant gratification: principle and primary process. Impulsive towards what we want: do not think about consequences, affects primary process thinking. Represents a collection of our basic biological drives, it is an impulse "i want i want i want: believed the id gave our libido, pleasure, happiness, determination of appropriateness, operates according to the pleasure.