CRM 1301 Chapter Notes -Libido, Reaction Formation, Electra Complex
17 Jul 2014
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Includes psychoanalytics theories that argue that the causes of criminal o behaviour are found in unconscious elements of personality o. Includes research on conscious personality (personality inventory: psych and psychiatric theories consider the impact of the situtation on the individual and explain behaviour by interrelating the situation with the individual"s biological and psychological characteristics. Historical background: organic disorders: head injuries that leave mind blank, distort vision/hearing or degerneration, functional disorders: strange behaviour but no known organic disease. Freud: unconscious, argues that behaviours could be explained by traumatic experiences in early childhood that left their mark, techniwues to treat problems, free association: relax and talk about whatever comes to mind. Invdividual then able to reconstruct earlier events and bring them to consciousness: transference: tendency tfor past significant relationships t be played dyring current (doctor/patient, conscious = ego, unconscious = id and superego. Id: reservoir of bio and psych drives, urges and impulses that underlie behaviour o (ex. libido)
