PS 272 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Midbrain, Phenothiazine, Tuberculosis Management
23 Sep 2016
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Each model views the source of abnormal behavior differently; as such, each model presents different types of treatments. Libido, oedipal conflict: anxiety & defense mechanisms, the structure of the mind id, ego, superego, stages of psychosexual development, childhood origins of neurotic symptoms, unconscious. Freud came to view the mind as consisting of different levels of activity, with most of the action occurring outside of conscious awareness. According to freud"s depth hypothesis, the largest part of the mind is the unconscious, of which we are unaware and from which material is normally unavailable. Unconscious motivation: the basic theme of unacceptable impulses which struggle to find expression in various disguises. For freud, this is the basis for all irrational human behavior: sexual basis of psychological symptoms. As freud helped patients explore further and further into the hidden and disguised bases of their symptoms, it seemed that inevitably the trail led eventually to a sexual conflict.
