PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 40: Hermann Rorschach, Penis Envy, Takers

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

Document Summary

Psychodynamic theories of personality view human behavior as a dynamic clinical attention on our unconscious mind interaction between the conscious and unconscious mind, including associated motives and conflicts: these theories come from freud"s psychoanalysis, which first focused. Freud first started specializing in nervous disorders. His search for a cause for such disorders set his mind running in a direction. By observing patients it led him to his (cid:498)discovery(cid:499) of the unconscious. He wondered if neurological disorders had psychological causes destined to change human self-understanding. By doing this he was hoping to follow a chain of thought leading into the patient"s unconscious, where painful unconscious memories, often from childhood, could be retrieved and released. Freud called his theory of personality and the associated treatment techniques psychoanalysis. Freud believed that the mind is mostly hidden. Our conscious awareness is like the part of an iceberg that floats above the surface.