PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Psychodynamics, Hypnosis, Reality Principle

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Trained as a physiologist and expert in observation, which marked his work after. Fascinated by ailments that seemed to have no physiological cause. Worked with charcot on hypnotism and mesmer before him, also a doctor who was interested in ailments with no physical cause. Realized it wasn"t the magnets but just the fact that a doctor told them that"d feel better made them better power of suggestion by an authority gure. Freud came to believe that all human behaviour is motivated by instinctual desires that provide psychic energy. Drives could be unconscious as well as conscious. Most psychologists today do not believe freud"s theories, nding them scienti cally untestable. Reason (ego) balances the two sides, referee. Instinct (id) wants things and wants them right away. Conscience (superego) the version of us that everyone would like. The manner in which our internal energies are released determines our personalities.