NRS 214 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-6: Defence Mechanisms, Family Therapy, Belongingness
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Reading 1: chapter 3 relevant theories and therapies for nursing practice. Freud used hypnosis as a form of treating mental illness, however he received mixed results. Freud then used the cathartic method (talk therapy), which we refer today as getting things off our chest . Talk therapy evolved to include free association which requires full and honest disclosure of thoughts and feelings as thy come to mind. Freud concluded that talking about difficult emotional issues had the potential to heal the wounds causing mental illness (this led freud to construct his psychoanalytic theory) The id, ego, and superego work together in a matured adult, with the ego as the leader: if the id overpowers, the person may be very impulsive, if the superego overpowers, the person may be self-critical and inferior. The environment we are in can either produce pain and build pressure or produce pleasure and decrease tension.
