SOC307H5 Lecture Notes - Penis Envy, Josef Breuer, Personality Disorder
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Basic assumption: there is something in human beings that makes them do what they do: there is more than what they see such as biological chromosomes. Most important factors influencing ones personality & life are deep in the unconscious. There is emphasis on the unconscious part- there is something to you that you"re not even aware of that affects your behavior. A form of neurosis: today we call it mental disorders. Depression, chronic anxiety, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, phobias, personality disorders. The more they looked, the less they could find; couldn"t find the gene that causes these mental disorders. Often associated by the patient a body part. Loss of self-control due to the overwhelming fear. Jean-martin charcot (also studying the same problem as freud) Patients were suffering from a variety of unexplained physical symptoms. Paralysis, seizures, contractures (muscles which contract & can"t be relaxed) Concluded; patients were suffering from a form of hysteria.
