PSY 3303 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Reaction Formation, Anal Stage, Psychoanalysis
10 Feb 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Freud began using the talking method with his own patients, and he concluded that at the time of the original trauma the patient had to hold back a strong emotion. The patient had forgotten the event and was unconscious or aware of it. His concept of unconscious processes is a dynamic one in which certain forces repress undesirable thoughts and then actively resist their becoming conscious. An emotion that is prevented from expressing itself normally may be expressed through neurotic symptoms. Wishes are repressed because they are at odds with a person"s self-concept. Free association: the patient is asked to verbalize whatever comes to mind no matter how insignificant, trivial or even unpleasant the idea might be. Was used to help his patients recover repressed ideas. Freud considered slips and dreams to be the royal road to the unconscious. Slips are bungled acts: a slip of the tongue, or a lapse of memory.
