PSY 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fritz Perls, Superiority Complex, Anna O.
5 Apr 2016
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Born in czechoslovakia, moved to austria as a child. Family encouraged education, was a very good student. Went to med school to be a dr. , then for psychiatry to develop theories. *very complicated theory, people often misinterpret it due to lack of knowledge* The book freud began to write which contained the theory of personality being based upon the nervous system. The book was never inished because he changed his beliefs on the subject, however it did help to improve later theories that he developed. Contained the ideas of primary and secondary processes: Primary processes: the tendency of the nervous system to be active. Secondary processes: when all the activity suddenly stops ex)when you are startled by something. Charcot was the famous psychologist at the time of freud inishing school and freud went to study with charcot in paris for a year. During this time charcot and bernheim were arguing about the nature of hypnosis.
