PSY 1305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 96: Inferiority Complex, Karen Horney, Freudian Slip
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Is individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting (how we see ourselves and what we believe about others in the world) personality will persist across time and across siuations. Observed patients whose disorders had no clear physical explanations. Concluded their problems reflected unacceptable thoughts and feelings, hidden away in the unconscious mind. Look at chart about the theories in book under introduction to personality. Look at chart for structure of the mind. Psychoanalytic perspective (freud): observed patients whose disorders had no clear physical explanations, concluded their problems reflected unacceptable thoughts and feeling, hidden away in the conscious mind, tried to understand why people had symptoms, psychoanalysis: theory and therapy. Free association: give people a prompt and tell the person to tell him everything that was on their mind. Look at chart in book: oral- 0-18 months- mouth, anal- 18-36 months- bowel, phallic-3-6 years- genitals, latency- 6 to puberty- dormant sexual feelings, genital-puberty on-maturation of sexual interests.