PSYC 4060 Lecture 3: Lecture_3_2018
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Catharsis release: was the key, hypnosis was made, when you are in a state you are more suggestable and weaker. Powerful release of emotions which eventually takes away the problem. Anna o was diagnosed with hysteria, she was blind, hypnosis, her father had an illness, she was responsible to give him medications. The more you resist the more it"s true. Psychoanalysis is the by far the longest type of treatment. If the defense is too strong and too powerful it doesn"t allow the treatment to work. Repressed: active blocking of something, not similar to forgetting. Its protecting the individual from whatever is going on. Defense mechanism: the lines between conscious and unconsciousness is defense. Find a way to break through the resistance. Who is completely driven by id might not have emotions because they are driven by satisfaction and aggression. Conscious ego: around 3 years of age, operate based on reality principle, secondary process of thinking, can put things together.
