PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Aaron T. Beck, Penis Envy, Internal Control
19 Sep 2013
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Understand the underlying biological cause, apple treatment; symptoms would disappear. Possible psychosocial determinants and influences were neglected. Freud became interested in hysterical patients: hysterical blindness paralysis, etc. (recall hippocrates, symptoms often disappeared if patient, under hypnosis discussed upsetting incidents, and feelings associated with them. This suggested to freud the idea of unconscious impulses, thoughts, feelings. Freud developed a complex theory that accounted for both normal and abnormal behaviour. Id: present at birth; completely unconscious, biological drives; pleasure principle, primary process thinking conjures up images of desired objects. Ego: begins to develop in the first year of life, becomes fantasy not capable of satisfying needs, seeks to express id"s needs in manner consistent with demands of environment; reality principle: secondary process thinking (planning, etc. ) Superego: develops gradually as child becomes aware of parents moral standards, operates according to moral principles, punishes through guilt and shame; partly unconscious.
