RHETOR 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Depth Psychology, Libido
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Freud thinks the future will attribute greater importance pa as a science of the unconscious than a therapeutic process. Freud: pa promises to become the link between psychiatry and other fields of study (medicine, anthropology, literary history. Dr breuer relieved a girl suffering from hysteria by hynopsis. Freud invented the term pa, which came to have 2 meanings (1) method of treating nervous disorders (2) science of unconscious mental processes depth psychology . Requires that physician have special training and devote a long period of time to study the mind of the patient, and requires that the patient make both material and mental sacrifices. Therapeutic results depend on replacing unconscious mental acts with conscious ones, by overcoming internal resistances in the patient"s mind. Psychoanalysis considers mental life from 3 points of view: (1) dynamic (2) economic (3) topographical.
