Psychology 3316F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Anna Freud, Hans Selye, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3316F/G
• Professor: ferwen

Document Summary

Conceptual origins of trauma definitions: differing definitions of trauma are based on the psychodynamic and behavioral traditions, and on early work on the biological basis of the stress response. Initial understanding of trauma: leads to impacts that are brief/short-term: prolonged reactions are not from event itself, but experiences leading up to the event. Freud: (cid:862)these patie(cid:374)ts regularl(cid:455) repeat the trau(cid:373)ati(cid:272) situatio(cid:374) i(cid:374) their drea(cid:373)s(cid:863: this refers to the signature symptom of ptsd, the (cid:862)flash(cid:271)a(cid:272)k(cid:863) Should diminish in weeks, or another diagnosis is required: studied ppl who were more vulnerable of developing traumatic reactions bc of their abnormal. Hpa: biological: inspired animal model, fight or flight response to threat. Ivan pavlov: classical conditioning: dog salivate, watson and rainer, conditioned fear of white rabbit and rat in 8 month infant. Fear response: stimuli comes from evolutionary thoughts of threat > angry faces, serpents. The criterion a controversy: gross stress reaction > disappeared for unknown reasons.