SOCPSY 2L03- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 51 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2L03
• Professor: Cyril Levitt

Document Summary

Freud began as a philosophy student and got interested in physiology and became a lab assistant under bruke. Focused on the nervous system of animals; papers on diseases that paralyzed children. Motivated to gain a career to support a family but couldn"t do so as a lab assistant, so he finished his medical degree. Spent time in paris working w/ psychiatrist jean marten charcot - chief of psychiatry specialized in treatment of hysteria. Induced patients into a trance and focus on symptoms and they"d experience relief from recalling certain memories. Returned to vienna and became a junior partner in a medical firm with breuer. Speculative thoughts and evidence on the nature of the mind. Believed that there was a part of the mind not available to us normally. These things that were kept back were the source of our problems and the result of symptomology.