RHETOR 104 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cogito Ergo Sum, Graphology, Cathexis

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Austrian neurologist; founder of psychoanalysis (clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between patient and pscyhoanalyst) Notion of the unconcscious; (1) dynamic (2) economic and (3) descriptive (there is a permanent structural conflict on the psyche, that is beyond our consciousness and the unconscious is inaccessible) Drawings visualize unconcious processes, localize brain activity. After dream, we remember the dream but cannot directly access it, only have recollections (cognitive exteriorities) Pa - goal to bring unconscious thoughts and feelings to consciousness by encouraging patient to talk about dreams and engage in fa. Believed that repression was the cause of neurosis within his patients. Use of free associations: encourage patients to talk freely without censorship or inhibition (goal oriented activities) about whatever ideas or memories occurred to them. Transference: process where patients displace feelings and ideas from previous (childhood) figures in their lives, unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another. Model of psychic structure: id, ego and superego.

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