INST 354 Lecture 5: INST354 Lecture 5: Psychoanalytic Theory to Cognition
10 Feb 2019
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Most of the work discussed in this book has been done in the last half-century. Because until the 1950s, psychology was dominated by two traditions: psychoanalytic theory and behaviorism. Neither of these traditions which became preeminent in the early 1900s treated thought as an important determinant of human behavior. A strong implication of the theory was that the nazi leaders, who engaged in monstrous activities, had to be suffering from the types of pathologies postulated by the theory. Moreover, these pathologies had to be related to pathologies and traumas of childhood, which according to the theory are crucial to the development of adult disorders. As wordsworth said, the child is father to the man. in fact, a 1943 united states office of. Strategic services report, by walter c. langer, was devoted to an analysis of adolf hitler and a prediction of his future actions based on his psychosexual perversion, which was later found not to exist.
