11 - Psychoanalytic Psychology: Freud and His Disciples Flashcards
Biological approaches
Assume that abnormal behavior is caused by brain malfunction that can be inherited or environmentally induced
Supernatural approaches
Attribute abnormal behavior to evil spirits or forces that have somehow entered the body
Psychological approaches
Emphasize the role of mental stress arising from such things as traumatic experiences, anxiety, fear, guilt, and unconscious motivation
Witch hunts
Promoted by the church and codified in Malleus Maleficarum, or the Witches’ Hammer in 1484…written by two Dominican theologians
Hysteria
Comes from the Greek word for uterus, and was originally believed to be due to a defective reproductive system in females. Symptoms varied from seizures, paralysis, tics, headaches, sensory loss to memory lapses. They mimicked neurological damage but no organic cause could be found. The condition confounded neurologists and most considered it to be a form of malingering.
The Nancy School
Auguste Liébeault and Hippolyte Bernheim
All people are suggestible but some more so than others…highly suggestible people are the most susceptible to hypnosis and the most likely to benefit from post hypnotic suggestions. Less suggestible people are harder to hypnotize and less likely to improve
The Charcot School
Jean-Martin Charcot and Pierre Janet
Susceptibility to hypnotism was a characteristic of underlying hysterical pathology and only hysterics could be hypnotized
Manifest content
The content of a dream that is remembered upon awakening. It is the literal narrative of what happened in the dream
Latent content
The true meaning of a dream that lies disguised beneath the manifest content and must be discovered
Dream work
Disguises the wish that is anxiety provoking and has been repressed into an acceptable form
Condensation
Involves compressing many repressed latent thoughts into fusions in the manifest content
Displacement
Involves a reversal of the emotional charge from the real object to a different one and can work in both directions
Symbolism
Involves the dream work of using universal dream symbols that have the same meaning in everyone’s dreams
Oedipal complex
First sexual impulses towards mother, first impulses of hatred and violence toward our fathers.
“Psychopathology of Everyday Life” Freud
Primary thesis was that all behavior, normal or abnormal, is determined and based on some motive
-mistakes in speech, reading and writing
-forgetting of names, words, and resolutions
-mistaken and chance behaviors
“Freudian Slips”
Clark University talks
The first major exposure of psychoanalysis in the United States
Thanatos
Death instinct
Libido…later renamed Eros
Life instinct
Objective anxiety
Arises from a real threat and the ego must rationally plan action to deal with the threat
Neurotic anxiety
Comes from a feeling that the irrational needs of the id are going to overwhelm the ego
Moral anxiety
Arises when the standards of the superego are in danger of being violated by the ego