PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Freudian Slip, Sigmund Freud, Cognitive Therapy
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Psychiatrist treats brain malfunction through the use of medication; does not always work. Psychologists realized the brain malfunction can be treated by methods other than medication. The environment and other aspects of life can cause the malfunction. Abnormal behavior: brain dysfunction, can not interact with others, can not hold down a job, can participate in a normal life style. Chemical imbalance, but we are not good at adjusting the chemistry in the brain. Medication increased the levels or block the function. Sigmund freud was the founder of psychology even though psychology did not yet exist. Abnormal behaviour comes from faulty thinking; thoughts that are not good. It"s the thoughts you have in your head that we need to address. The solution to this is talking, if you talk enough you will expose some kind of subconscious ideas and beliefs; freudian slips. Behaviourists motto: i am only going to look at what i can see, not what goes on in your.
