Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Ethology, Psychoanalysis, Psych

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Campbell

Document Summary

Proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behaviour as a disease and has become the main way of thinking about mental illness today. Ethology: refers to the apparent causation and development history of an illness. Prognosis: is a forecast about the probable course of an illness. Verbal reports of thoughts that enter awareness without censorship. Therapist helps client understand the symbolic meaning of their dreams. Shows that its getting closer to the issue. Client responses irrationally to therapist like he/she was important future from client"s past. He is afraid a horse will bite him on the street, and his fear seems somehow connected wit his having been frightened by a large penis . His father and freud tried to understand the problem. Hans first asked about his fear hans said that he was frightened that the horses would fall down and make a noise with their feet. He had seen a horse collapse and die.