PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Karen Horney, Typical Male, Attachment Theory
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Started a private practice treating patients w nervous disorders . Began developing the idea that portion of the human minds were outside conscious awareness. Unconscious part of the mind about which the conscious mind has no awareness. Devoted his career to exploring the nature of unconscious mind. Described how unconscious mind was expressed in dreams contained clues to our inner most secrets, desires, and motives. Freud"s theory: adult personality was a result of how the person as a child coped with his/her sexual and aggressive urges. At first seen as politically incorrect by standards of victorian morality. Freud"s model of human nature relied on notion of psychic energy to motivate all human activity. What were the forces that motivated ppl to do anything at all. Believed that psychic energy operated according to the law of conservation of energy amount of psychic energy an individual possessed remained constant throughout his/her lifetime. Personality change viewed as redirection of a person"s pscyhic energy.
