PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Object Relations Theory, Erik Erikson
12 Mar 2013
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The neo-analytic movement contemporary psychoanalysis is based on the follow postulates: the unconscious still plays a large role in life, although it may not be the ubiquitous influence that freud held it was. Behaviour often reflects compromises in conflicts between mental processes, like emotions, motivations and thoughts childhood plays an important part in personality development, particularly in terms of shaping adult relationship styles. Mental representations of the self and relationships guide our interactions with others. Personality development involves not just regulating sxual and aggressive feelings but also moving from an immature, socially dependent way of relating to others to a mature, independent relationship style. We should not conclude that all recovered memories are false memories, just become some have turned out apparently to be false. Hypnosis is a technique used to get patients to recall freely childhoof experiences within the protection of a relaxed state; evidence shows that hypnosis does not infact improve memory.
