Chapter 12 Flashcards
bloodletting
withdrawal of blood from a patient to cure or prevent illness and disease, to relieve tension in the circulatory system
moral treatment
treating disorders by improved nutrition and living conditions
animal magnetism
living organisms are influnced by magnetic forces and that cures for illness could be used by magnets
suggestion
uncritically accept an idea or command from another
neurophology
hypnotism was related to the state of sleep
hypnotism
heightened suggestibility
anna O. case
case of hysteria, hysteria suffered from their memories of tramatic events - detailes distored over the years
catharsis
emotional release when ones gains insight to the unconscious origins of the problem
free association
procedure to probe the unconscious; patients describing whatever occurs to them without censorship
resistance
when a person cant ‘free association’ caused by repressed material
dream analysis
road to the unconscious, dreams needed to be analyzed
seduction hypothesis
hysteria was caused by childhood sexual abuse
eros
life instinct and manifested in the sex drive
thanatos
name given to the death instinct and manifested in agression
ego defense mechanisms
ways of behaving and acting to defend the ego from anxiety
repression
unwanted impuleses or tramatic memories are forced into unconcious
inferiority complex
human behavior could be viewed as an attempt to compensate for feeling inferiority
individual psychology
emphasized social factors in the development of the individual
word association
responding to a stimuli and saying the first thing that comes to mind
analytical psychology
decreased emphasis on sex
collective unconscious
unconscious included the collective experiences of our ancestors; reflected in the common themes that occur in the mythology of various cultures
