HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Occupational Safety And Health, Mental Disorder, Scientific Method
2 Aug 2016
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During course of the 20th c. , growth in size and importance of disciplines relating to mental and emotional phenomena (psychiatry, psychology, social work, etc. ) These shifts have changed expectations about what it is to be human . As a result, deviance became something that required immediate, and sometimes drastic attention. Freud radically changed the way we view mental health. Mental disorder result of conflicts between id, superego, and ego. Id = animalistic part of ourselves, craves, wants, desires (sex/aggression) Superego = opposite of id, society"s voice that exists within us that guides our behaviour. Ego = mediates between superego and id. When ego overburdened by demands of the id and superego (anxiety) it utilizes defense mechanisms (repression, denial) Take the unconscious, and move it to the conscious psychotherapy. Provided an entire new world view (people applied it in every aspect of life) Didn"t really employ the scientific method, cannot really test of verify, rests on analyst"s interpretation, etc.
