PSYC203 Lecture Notes - Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Oedipus Complex, Anxiety Disorder
27 Oct 2013
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There are over 19 disorders that involve anxiety. Specific phobia- excessive fear of a specific stimulus. Social phobia- fear of social performance or scrutiny. Post-traumatic stress disorder- stress reaction to trauma: physiology is more aroused, re-experiencing things that have happened. Hans was a 5-year-old boy who was afraid of horses, and avoided leaving the house for fear of being bitten by one. He also developed a speci c fear of the blinkers and muzzles on horses" faces. Freud considered his fears to relate to the. Oedipus complex (see chapter 2), and that he was having sexual fantasies about his mother and feared his father"s retaliation. He therefore displaced the fear of his father onto horses who reminded him of his father. Prevents the classical conditioning process of extinction. A cognitive behavioural model: retained the conditioning processes but added a number of other processes. Rehearsal and overestimation of the possible adverse outcomes.
