PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Panic Attack, Pressure Of Speech

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Dissociative disorders: multiple personality disorder/dissociative identity. We more afraid of things that could hurt us. Not localized as being caused by any particular thing. Feel like their heart is going to stop. Overcome by panic attack and cant do anything else while experiencing one. Fear of open places, of being out in the world. Fear of having a panic attack while outside their home. Cases where individuals have not left their homes for 20 years. Can vary from mildly obsessive to extremely and completely debilitating. Two things that characterize the disorder: repetitive thoughts, repetitive behaviors. Need therapy to solve some deep lying problem which is causing the disorder. Example of little hans: case study that freud used to develop his ideas about the oedipus. Complex: little hans was incredibly frightened of horses, freud believed that little hans had anxiety arising from the oedipus.