HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Microorganism, Dreamwork, Oedipus Complex
15 Dec 2020
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Psychoanalysis: a new science for a new century. From the 16th century onward there were asylums; patients were treated as prisoners, forced to do labour and religious exercise. 18th century was characterized by medical practices vs. moral treatment educational approach had better results and became the dominant form of therapy for the first half of the. The discovery of the microbe causing syphilis caused the emergence of a new group of physicians neurologists (treated milder forms of mental problems) By 1880 he had published 4 articles on neuroanatomy. Neurologist w/ a private medical practice in 1886 specializing in neurology: psychological treatment= treatment of mental health problems consisting of conversations between patient and therapist. Freud adopted the cathartic method and found it worked better than direct hypnosis. Freud"s attempts to solve this problem led to an expanded and ambitious theory of human nature in general.
