ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Erogenous Zone, Little Albert Experiment, Anna Freud
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Task 7 psychoanalysis: a new science for a new century. People with mental disorders were taken care of first on an informal basis and then (increasingly) in institutions. Asylum name given to the institutions for the insane established from the 16th century on. First modelled after prisons, later after hospitals for chronic patients. Basic treatment in asylums consisted of containment and attempts to re-educate the patients. Freud was the first to actually talk to his patients (psychological treatment) On the basis of these talks he constructed the psychoanalytical theory which argues that the unconscious mind plays a strong role in the control of people s actions. Psychological treatment treatment of mental health problems consisting of conversations between the patient and the therapist. Initiated by freud as an alternative to the prevailing medical and educational treatments. Psychoanalysis name given to freud s theory that people s actions are controlled by their unconscious; long and often difficult process of self-examination.
