Sigmund Freud Flashcards
Who was Freud?
A medical doctor.
What did Freud see in hospitals?
He saw that people with severe mental health problems either got very little treatment or no treatment at all.
He was an ambitious man who wanted to?
Develop a theory applicable to all people.
What did Freud mention about the dreams he had?
That they were interesting.
What did Freud remember about his mother?
That he had strong feelings for her as a child.
Freud’s social class?
Upper-middle class.
His lifestyle?
He was married, a father & lived a comfortable life.
What effect did being Jewish have on Freud?
He lived at a time in which Jews were being persecuted.
He experienced hatred, his books were burned & he eventually left his home country of Austria.
Freud seemed to be?
A compassionate man who believed in his own ideas.
Was Freud scientific in his approach?
He was, due to his training as a medical doctor, and he made an effort to be scientific. But he was strongly criticised for being unscientific despite this.
Background to ‘Little Hans’ and Freud’s studying of him?
Little Hans was a small boy whose development was relayed by his father to Freud for quite a long time.
When studying Little Hans, Freud says that he tried hard to only consider data that came directly from Little Hans, and to discount interpretations by Little Hans’s father.
The story of Little Hans provided evidence for some of Freud’s ideas.
When was the Little Hans case study published?
In 1909.
When was Freud’s theory developed?
Around the turn of the 20th century.
