PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Repetition Compulsion, Zeitgeist, The Human Instinct

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Frank Marchese

Document Summary

Study notes: chapter #3 the psychoanalytic strategy. Psychoanalysis -> refers technically to psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy (the change process) guided by psychoanalytic theory it encompasses a theory of personality, an approach to studying personality and procedures for assessing and changing personality. Many of these theorists also share some other assumptions about personality (which overlap to some extent with theories of the other three strategies as well) These issues are highly intertwined in the psychoanalytic strategy. Most psychoanalysts are therapists and are directly involved with personality change, which requires assessment of people"s intrapsychic processes. Observations made in psychoanalytic therapy form both the basis of personality theory and the research evidence in support of the theory"s validity. Psychoanalytic strategy has been dominated by the work and writings of sigmund freud: he was the founder of psychoanalytic thought (theory, research methodology, and psychotherapy, was also the first modern personality psychologist.