PSY 216 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Fathom, Implosive Consonant, Neurosis
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The theory of personality, approach to psychotherapy, method of investigation founded by freud. A disorder typically characterized by paralysis or the improper functioning of certain part of the body. Conversion of repressed psychical elements into somatic symptoms. Freud was convinced there was a psychogenic and sexual origin of hysteria. Society could not fathom the concept of male hysteria. Childhood sexual experiences were the source of adult hysteria. Catharsis (breuer) the process of removing hysterical symptoms through talking them out. where. Generally characterized by anxiety, hysteria, phobias, obsessive- compulsive reactions, pre-occupation with some form of creative activity depression, chronic fatigue, and hypochondriacal reactions. Saw himself as a human scientist; humanist and scholar, not a natural scientist. After the death of his father, he analyzed himself daily. He also realized he was middle aged had not achieved fame yet. He was disappointed in himself that he had not made a major scientific contribution.
