introduction Flashcards
what is personality?
-personality is a dynamic organisation, inside a person of a psychological system, that creates the persons patterns of behaviour thoughts and feelings. according to gordan allport.
who are the founders of personality and what did they do?
- fraud created the psychoanalysis , discovered treatments such as psychodynamic and integrative treatments.
- Jung& analytic psychology, whom was a colleague of Freud, who then broke away and developed his own theories and treatments. where he had a appeal towards religion and spirituality.
- carl rogers 1950 responded to behaviourism and psychoanalysis, developed humanistic approaches, which posit of optimal growth
- beck and Ellis- developed CBT, a combination of behavioural and cognitive science.
- Eysenck- developed ways to measure personality using trait theory, take account of both biological and psychological and social determents
what is psychoanalysis
the principle of mental and emotional life
who is Sigmund Freud
- Freud was trained in medicine as a neurologist ,
- he was interested in biological basis of mental life of human beings
- influenced by Charles Darwin and thinkers of his generation
- in the end of the 19th century, it was debated whether hysteria was biological or psychanalysis
Freuds ideas
- model of mind
- development of personality
- human nature vs motivation
- what is adaptive/maladaptive
how did Freud emerge his theory’s with his clinical work
-Discovery of psychoanalysis (1895-1910)
unconscious, Oedipus complex: infertile sex
-Years of maturity (1911-1920): papers on technique; paranoia; melancholia; narcissism
-Fresh perspective (1920-1939) beyond the pleasure principle; repetition process ; Eros and Thanatos
hysteria during early patients
- hysteria was a spitting image of the unconscious to avoid emotional pain
- Freud would do this by encourage his patients to speak freely about any thoughts and feelings or memories.
- this helped patients express things that that they were unconsciously unacceptable
- this was known as taking the cure but toady this is known as psychoanalyis
who was Freud patients
Ana 0- 21 years old who suffered from cough and moodiness, disturbance vison in the right side
- Katherine:18 years old , shortness of breath and a frightening hallucination of face that looked at he.
- Dora- fragment of an analysis case of hysteria, a cough and a suicidal rate towards the father
what was the treatment for hysteria
hypnosis/free association helps to recover of the past memories catharsis of abreaction has to be applied for the realises of emotions , to help patients recover.
was hypnosis banned
yes
what did Freud use instead
free association
he still used the same couch for hypnosis he figured out that sitting will help the patient to explore their thoughts and feelings
what did Freuds female patient tell him
they were seduced by their father
based on Freuds theory hypnosis was based ion what
-hypnosis was based on traumatic experiences of childhood and sexual experience
why did Freud discredit hypnosis
Freud stated that what he hared from his patients sexual seduction was not right because paitants
why did Freud discredit hypnosis
Freud stated that what he hared from his patients sexual seduction was not right because patients would exaggerate what they saw and this could not be proven.
