Psych Overview: U5 Ch11 Flashcards
A psychogenic disorder in which patients experience physiological symptoms, such as fits of violent emotion, paralysis, anesthesia, amnesias, and other neurological like symptoms, without obvious organic causes.
Hysteria
What Breuer’s method was called:
Cathartic method
A form of psychotherapy and a general psychological theory developed by Sigmund Freud.
Psychoanalysis
In Freudian theory, emotion-laden memories or thoughts that are out of conscious awareness and thus cause hysterical symptoms.
Pathogenic Ideas
Hysterical symptoms, interpreted by Freud as the result of emotional energy becoming strangulated and then converted to physical symptoms
Conversions
A transitional technique between hypnosis and free association, in which Sigmund Freud placed his hand on a patient’s forehead while assuring him or her that relevant memories would occur.
Pressure Technique
A technique used by Sigmund Freud in which one is asked to say, openly and honestly, the first thoughts and ideas that come to mind, without edit.
Free association
The prevention or expulsion from consciousness of anxiety-arousing thoughts or memories.
Repression
The mind is constantly confronted with irreconcilable demands from innate biology, the external world, and the moral sense r conscience.
Intrapsychic conflict
An early theory proposed by Freud and then abandoned, suggesting that all hysterics must have undergone sexual abuse as children.
Seduction theory
Responses that serve to protect a person against consciously entertaining psychologically dangerous pathogenic ideas.
Defenses
Freud’s most important book
The Interpretation of Dreams
The actual images, thoughts, and content of a dream as experienced by the dreamer; it is actually a transformation of the precipitating but more psychologically dangerous latent content.
Manifest Content
The hidden meaning of dreams that lies beneath the manifest content.
Latent Content
What did dreams represent?
some element of the fulfillment of wishes
