PSY 150A1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Freudian Slip, Sigmund Freud, Unconscious Mind
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Reasonably stable patterns of emotions, motives, and behavior. Behavior is the result of inner conflicts. Unconscious urges are kept below the surface by repression. Form of therapy used to explore the unconscious mind. Freud call his techniques and theories psychoanalysis. Basic anxiety and neurotic personalities, feminist positions. Led to shift to examine problems as having a psychological source. No evidence for existence of psychic structures. Problems with clinical method for gathering evidence exists. People have a conscious need for self-actualization. Ongoing sense of who and what one is. Sense of how and why one reacts to the environment. How one chooses to act on the environment. Focuses on the nature of self and conditions that allow the self to develop freely. Way in which one looks at self and the world. Accepting a person as having intrinsic merit regardless of present behavior. Accepting a person only when they behave in the desired manner.