PSYC 2130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anna O.

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Frank Marchese

Document Summary

J breuer 1880"s, implied psychoanalytic treatment, 15 years before freud entered the scene. He was the first person who did this form of treatment. He was greatly influenced by the success of anna o who was treated. Breuer were good friends and colleagues: breuer made the cathartic method. Catharsis is the process of releasing and providing relief from strong or repressed emotion. It has to do with emotional release, strong repressed emotions. Catharsis has to do with the release of strong emotion, that may have been repressed, that is blocked from expression, and in the subconscious. The memory of the event (it"s painful) and the emotion associated with that event is expressed in this treatment. You can repress the event, but still remember the emotion: the memory and the emotion coincide, but they also dissociate, where the memory is repressed, and you experience the emotion, or vice versa, or both can be repressed.