PSYCH 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psych, Suggestibility, Reaction Formation
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Believed that he could mesmerize hypnotize" people into heightened states of suggestibility. Believed that he was releasing blockage in human"s animalistic. Freudian theory of the structure and function of the mind. Was head of the la bictre hospital and observed mesmer. Believed that mesmerism could make a difference in patients. Unconscious: we have things going on within our interpsyche that we are. Psychoanalytic model sought to explain developmental and personality. Illogical childish i want what i want mentality. Mediates between the wants of the id and what can actually take place in the true environment. Freud and anna o words, and had blurred vision experienced the death of her ill father. Freud studied a woman named bertha pappenheim who had recently. After his passing she began to feel faint for no reason, had difficulty forming. Sought treatment because there were no apparent reason that these things. Freud and brewer tried to tap into her unconscious.
