PSYCH 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Personality Disorder, Data Cluster, Schizotypal Personality Disorder
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Psychoanalytic approaches/ psychodynamic approach: processes and mechanisms that drive personality, emphasis on the unconscious and on what is going on below the surface (ice berg metaphor). Victorian era in which there were high standards for women"s purity and morality and sexuality was highly repressed- freud"s theory focus highly on sex because of the context of his life. Freud also talks a lot about aggression and violence and thinks in the context of wars and ww1. A lot of what we think and know about psychology and personality psychology has roots in. Freud"s ideas and this is why it is important to credit him in psychology. Freud thought source of a lot of problems was the unconscious and burying things in the unconscious and we can help by bringing these memories out. Freudian contributions to modern personality: unconscious processes play an important role in human life (radical idea at the time).
