AG 116AD Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Psychophysiology, Sleepwalking, Intellectual Disability
29 Jul 2020
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Abstract and keywords: contetx: since world war ii, psychology has been created as a discipline in france. The republican system, within which the project of developing a scientific understanding of the individual was first laid down, was limited by the political desire to preserve liberty of conscience, the founding-stone of the republic. Psychology, seen as a crisis of thought: Psychotherapy (partly a consequence of the influence of psychoanalysis. ) Context: 2nd half of the 19th century, the development of industrialized society led to the need to form a body of positive and useful knowledge about the individual. Dual identity of the individual, for we are both natural and social. Scientific investigations of the nervous system revealed that this two-sided individual was subdivided even further. It gradually became apparent that this part of ourselves, which we do not control, determines our individuality. The epistemological approach that framed the investigations described below was affected by the difficulties that flow from these two factors.
