PSY-P 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Psychoanalytic Theory, Psychoanalysis, Stressor
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Stephanie: amygdala (in midbrain)- responsible for fear response- her"s is overactive. Electrical, chemical events (in neurons and cells) inside the body (brain & nervous system)- chemical transmission, neurons fire. Serotonin decreases depression and anxiety, but stephanie doesn"t have enough of it. Effects of environment on overt (measurable), observable behavior. Stephanie: stress of having a baby is what pushed her to the expression of her. Unconscious processes (thoughts, attitudes, behavior) of which we are unaware. Stephanie: sex part transformed into fear of germs (dirty) sex. Stephanie: dysfunctional thoughts add to or maintain a disorder people & things will hurt my baby: this led to her behaviors. Freud: made enormous contribution to culture and psychology, concerned with the idea of the unconscious (not in active awareness) Stephanie: contamination obsession: sex part of id (not aware) No empirical (scientific) support, not measurable theory & psychoanalysis as a therapy. Psychoanalysis as a therapy: event consequence.
