PSYC18H3 Chapter 14: Chapter 14 notes
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detractors argued that psychoanalysis was less a therapeutic procedure: freud proposed a therapy of listening carefully, evenly hovering attention . Psyc18 chapter 14 textbook notes thought that one should live in a simple way and enjoy the simple pleasures, like food and the enjoyment of friendship shifts in attention from irrational desires to more worthwhile ones: stoics. the ideas of the stoics were thought to have influenced the acceptance of christianity by the romans following the conversion of the emperor. more radical than the epicureans they thought that because emotions derives from desires, therefore to free ones led from crippling and destructive emotions, one should extirpate almost all desires. therapy consists of encouraging a fuller experience of such emotions, primary emotions. secondary emotions clients experience emotions too much, clients report the emotions as troublesome: e. g. women who are sad when really they are angry.
