PSY 181 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: The Technique, Pierre Janet, Dreamwork

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 181
• Professor: C H R I S T O P H E R N I E M I E C

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Medical skill is in most cases powerless against severe diseases of the brain (6) Freud says doctors don"t have the same sympathy for hysterical patients as they do for sufferers of organic diseases. Doctors can"t understand hysteria and in the face of hysteria, he is a layman doctors don"t understand hysteria so they regard them as wicked and punish them by. State of absence =altered personality accompanied by confusion. Their symptoms are residues and mnemic symbols of traumatic experiences. 15: hysterical people cannot get free of the past and for its sake they neglect what is real and immediate . Very important that the patient has to relive not only the traumatic events but the emotions associated with them too. Breuer"s theory of hypnoid states was later dropped by psychoanalysis. According to pierre janet, hysteria is a form of degenerate modification of the nervous system, which shows itself in an innate weakness in the power of psychical synthesis.