PSYC 370 Chapter Notes -Countertransference, Psychopathy, Central Nervous System Disease
21 Jan 2013
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To fully understand/appreciate theories, look at the context/origin it was created in. Brucke: positivism: that applies experimental rigor to biology, physiology and medicine. Hysteria (conversion disorder) -- mostly female patients, displaying symptoms of central nervous system disorder without apparent cause. Transference: transfer of childlike feelings for parents to analyst. Free association: the method of therapy freud used, where patients are free to speak of whatever comes to mind. Resistance: on part of patient during free association; such as silence, exacerbation of symptoms when origin was close to anxiety provoking revelation (when disturbing material threated to surface) -> some force must be holding such thoughts from awareness. Ego: awareness of wishes, feelings, memories too painful to be dealt with openly --> thus kept away from consciousness to protect self from anxiety. Repression: unconscious process of pushing out ideas, memories, feelings that could make one anxious; very quick and automatic.
