BIOL 2P92 Lecture Notes - Gestalt Therapy, Paralanguage, Oedipus Complex
19 Jan 2013
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But for most part defence mechanisms are maladaptive. Phobias- irrational fears and avoidance of harmless objects or situations were caused by an unresolved. Oedipal conflict with the fear of the father displaced onto some other object or situation. When they are 4 /5 boys covet their mothers, albeit at an unconscious level. Similarly ocd was traced to the anal stage with the urge to soil or to be aggressive transformed by reaction formation into compulsive cleanliness. In his early work freud postulated that the cause of his patients hysterical problems was sexual abuse in childhood typically rape by the father. All have continued to embrace his emphasis on human beh as the product of dynamics within the psyche. Classical psychoanalysis is based on frueds 2nd theory of neurotic anxiety that neurotic anxiety is the reaction of the ego when a previously punished and repressed id impulse presses for expression.
