SOC307H5 Lecture Notes - Sigmund Freud, Neurosis, Psychological Repression
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Sigmund freud (1856-1939) psychoanalysis: depth psychology basic assumption: most important factors influencing one"s personality and life are deep in the unconscious. Treated patients who were suffering from a variety of unexplained physical symptoms. Paralysis, seizures, contractures o o o o o. Picture: hysterical seizure concluded patients were suffering from a form of hysteria had been caused by their emotional response to a traumatic accident in their past fall from a scaffold, a railway crash . Diagnosis patients suffered not from the physical effects of the accident but from the idea they had formed of it. Main forms of neurosis came about when: a traumatic experience led to process of unconscious symptom-formation. 21 years old who had fallen ill while nursing her father her illness began with a severe cough subsequently developed a number of other physical symptoms paralysis, hallucinations .
