PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cognitive Psychology, Behaviorism
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Controversial in the world of psychologists - some think he"s a hero while some psychologists think that he was the worst thing that ever happened to psychology. Up to freud"s point, psychology has been studied scientifically. Freud was a physician who specialized on nerve disorders. He became interested on disorders with weird symptoms - one moment they"re happy, next thing you know they"re going hysterical. Freud"s claim: a man is away on a business trip and comes home to see his wife having an affair with another man. According to freud, since this man doesn"t want his life to shatter, in a split second, he becomes blind. He suddenly gains all the symptomatology of blindness and this happens because his unconsciousness wants to protect his consciousness. The man would then tell his doctor that as he came home, he opened his room and then he suddenly went blind.
