PSYCH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Reaction Formation, Oedipus Complex, Freudian Slip
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Individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting: our personality is formed by 5 years old. Posit that behavior is dynamic interaction between conscious and unconscious mind: humanistic approach. Focus on inner capacities for growth and self-fulfillment: trait theories. Examine characteristic patterns of behavior: social cognitive theories. Observed patients whose disorders had no clear physical explanations. Concluded their problems reflected unacceptable thoughts and feelings, hidden away in the unconscious mind: there is a conflict. Talk therapy, meeting multiple times a week. The patient can project their impulses onto their blank screen. Patient is on a couch, therapist behind a couch. Freud started this new type of psychotherapy: conscious, pre conscious, unconscious mind. Between sleep and awake, not full awareness: free association. Give someone a word/cue and they respond with the first thing that comes to their mind. Keep writing and not stop stream of consciousness: ego,superego, id, pleasure principle, reality principle. The mind is mostly hidden beneath the conscious surface.
