PSY333H1 Lecture Notes - Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms, Radical Change, Emotional Reasoning
14 Dec 2012
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9/26/12 2:07 pm: psy333, lecture 2, styles of thinking in health psychology. Freud: he proposed psychological explanations for organic disorders, his psychoanalytic theories originated in the study of hysteria, hysteria is now called somatoform-- psychological in origin. How to rectify your primary thoughts: 1) evaluation: write down all your thoughts, 2) challenge them- who told you if you got a b+ your not good, 3) replace your negative thoughts with positive thoughts, ex. Stage fright: imagine yourself succeeding, look at someone smiling, adequate preparation, shift perspective. Preventing stress: cognitive coping, problem focused coping, emotion coping, Humor has been shown to help students deal with. Anxiety depression: where do automatic thoughts come from, fear, doubt, skepticism, childhood experience, if you see anxiety as a channel and you hold the remote. If you see anxiety as a choice you can see how to change it: make a chart with 2 columns: one with automatic thoughts and one for secondary thoughts.
