PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sigmund Freud, Psychodynamics, Prenatal Development
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Chapter 10: define the ages that comprise the stages of human development, define the stages of prenatal development, characterize human perception in utero. Sigmund freud: practived neurology, the study of disorders of the nervous systems: treated patients for hysteria", exaggerated or uncontrolled emotion/excitement. Psychoanalysis developed based on his patients free association, fantasies and dreams . Psychodynamic theory is the personality theory extending from freud"s psychoanalytic approach. Personality is formed by needs, strivings, and desires largely operating outside of awareness motives that can also produce emotional disorders. Psychodynamic researchers call the mental processes that are outside our awareness the dynamic unconscious. An active system encompassing a lifetime of hidden memories, the person"s deepest instincts and desires, and the person"s inner struggle to control those forces. Reacting a way in a way that is opposite to that is causing anxiety ( a man feels vulnerable so acts more macho) Taking out negative positive on something else .
