PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Carl Jung, Libido, Death Drive
6 Aug 2013
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Medical doctor who practiced in vienna, austria (1890s-1930s) Left his native country after hitler came into power in the 1930s. Began his career as a research neurologist. Went to study the developing field of hypnosis with jean-martin charcot. Early discovery when patients talked about their psychological problems, sometimes that itself was enough to help or cure them. Hypnosis was used at first to get his patients to talk about difficult topics. Carl jung and alfred adler were the most famous of freud"s followers. His ideas came from the patients he treated as well as his observations of the workings of his own mind. Determinism the idea that everything that happens has a cause that- in principle, maybe not always in practice- can be identified. The assumption that everything that happens in a person"s mind, and therefore everything that a person thinks and does, also has a specific cause.
