PSYCH 2810 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Trobriand Islands, Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Planned Parenthood
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Aristotle- believed that men implanted their offspring into women who were only vessels: the mother"s role merely to sustain fetus growth. Johan ham late 17th century discovered sperm (dutch medical student: peer suggested they were homunculi tiny pre-formed human (nicholas hartsoeker) Havelock ellis 1859-1939 personal accounts of sexual fixation of female urination; plea for sexual tolerance rather than treatment or explanation (english physician) Sigmund freud 1856-1939 psychoanalysis, school of thought that placed the origin of sexual problems in the operations of the unconscious mind, especially during childhood. Childhood included phases of autoerotic, homosexual, and incestuous desires towards parents. Hysteria stemmed from lack of sexual stimulation (austrian neurologist: perversion: (obsolete term) atypical sexual desire or behavior, viewed as mental disorder, neuroses: mental disorders such as depression that, in freudian. Theory, are strategies for coping with repressed sexual conflicts. Magnus hirschfield 1868-1935 views opposed freud; sexual orientation was biological (german physician and gay-rights pioneer)
