PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Subliminal Stimuli, John Bowlby, Dream Interpretation
27 Mar 2013
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Psychoanalysis inspired by freud but modified and advanced. Focus on childhood relationships and adult conflicts with others, such as difficulties becoming intimate or becoming intimate with the wrong kinds of people. Should not include all recovered memories as false memories. Should not assume all recovered memories are true. Factors that might influence people to have false memories. Popular press ex. books that might list symptoms of sexual abuse, the symptoms are general feelings (low self-esteem, depression etc. ) Behavior of some therapists techniques used for patients to reflect on their childhoods hypnosis, suggestive interviewing, interpretations of symptoms as signs of past trauma, pressure from authority figure to recall past trauma and dream interpretation. Imagination inflation effect a memory is elaborated upon in the imagination, leading person to confuse the imagined event with events that actually happened. Therapists believe effective treatment must result in patient overcoming repressed memories and reclaiming a traumatic past.
