PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Latency Stage, Inferiority Complex, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
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June 13 2016 freud, jung and the neofreudians. Studied with jean-martin charcot at salp tri re hospital. Conversion hysteria (conversion disorder): the patient has physical symptom, no identifiable physical cause for them. Glove anaesthesia - disorder in which the person has no feeling in their hands but they have feelings in their arms (impossible). Notable in psychology for many reasons: first person who talked in a consistent way in the discipline about psychodynamic therapy. Trained as a physician at the hospital, focus was on hysteria which was thought of a women"s disorder (womb disease), and that women only had hysteria, it was defined as a nervous system disorder only for women. Case of anna o. (bertha pappenheim: 1880: treated by joseph breuer, symptoms included: paralysis of both legs and the right arm, many other symptoms as well, diagnosis: hysteria, treatment: hypnosis. Chimney sweeping" sessions: discussing symptoms to alleviate them.
