PSYC 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Pierre Janet, Joseph Breuer, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
10 Feb 2020
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Chapter 2: the beginnings of personality theory: scientific creations that are personality theories bear the stamp of the era and circumstances of their creation, the beginning of psychoanalysis. Can see: the database of the theory, the processes of hypothesis formation and test, the rejection of misleading hypotheses, the gradual merging of fractional hypotheses into a complete theory of the human person. Sigmund freud: personal history and context: founded theory of psychoanalysis based on patients that have experiences with neurosis, research assistant to ernst brucke (one of the most distinguished proponents of positivism in biological science. Apply the experimental rigour of astronomy, physics and chemistry to biology, physiology and medicine: biological sciences (and medicine) were strictly empirical. Hysteria: a neurosis appearing to mimic neurological symptoms like the loss of sensory or motor functions: concerned with impairment of the nervous system. Symptoms as the product of psychological conflict between potent and irreconcilable motives: charcot and hypnosis.
