PSY 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Suggestibility, Hypnosis

• School: Kutztown University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 11
• Professor: Manos Akillas

Document Summary

All living organisms have a positive & negative. Wrote a book about his force, strange behaviors result from an of- beliefs balance of these forces. Everyone has 4 luids in balance in their bodies, but that balance gets disturbed and afects our behaviors. In order for a person to be healthy they must have strong logic. To be able to help the mentally ill we have to teach them philosophy. Created mental institutions to try and relieve people"s stress (successful) You can help the mentally ill by talking to them in a manipulative way. Wanted to teach the mentally ill skills in-order for them to help themselves. Relocated the mentally ill into better environments from the basement. Theory of hysteria: sufering from a brain weakness results in hysteria. Thought only a few people can be hypnotized. Can"t say that all sufer from a weakness, then it isn"t a weakness.