PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Preconscious, Psychopathology, Psychoanalytic Theory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Frank Marchese

Document Summary

Psychoanalysis: psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy (the change process) guided by psychoanalytic theory. Encompasses a theory of personality, an approach to studying personality, and procedures for assessing and changing personality. All these theories emphasize the primacy of driving forces within the person that motivate them to display consistent patterns behavior and interpersonal relations. Four basic issues in personality psych theory, assessment, research, and application. Sigmund freud: first modern personality psychologist & founder of psychoanalytical theory, research methodology, and psychotherapy. Believed dreaming or fantasizing about elongated or pointed objects usually represents the penis/male sexuality and related themes. The need for a developmental scheme to understand personality. Psychodynamic theories: freudians, revisionist stage theorists (cid:894)(cid:449)ho e(cid:454)pa(cid:374)d/alter freud"s ideas), motivational theorists (who expand on basic drives by freud), ego-psychologists, & object relations theorists (contend that striving for contact with others, a social need, drives ppl) Drive: an inborn force built into the human mind.