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| Dr. Sigmund Freud - Background |
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| Austrian (d. 1930): couldn't find physical/mental reason his patients could TELL him why they were sick (unaware of this) - therefore: Unconcious exisits!!! |
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| Freud's Personality theory: |
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- unconcious part of personality
- composed of INSTINCTUAL desires or needs: hunger, sleep, sex, bathroom
- doesn't operate in reality
- not rational |
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| - ID creates needs, increases tension on concious part of the personality until satisfied |
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- The concious part of your personality
- Born w/ the capacity to develop ego
- Ego develops w/ experience
- Function: to find real world solutions to ID's desires
- THIS DOES NOT make the decision, merely comes up w/ and presents options |
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- concious part of personality too
- born w/ the capacity to develop this too
- Function: decide which option of EGO is the best
- uses rationality and morality
- build it w/ experience and guidance from others
- guilt! only humans have this as we are the only ones to grasp the concept of right/wrong |
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| In a normal (Freudian) Personality: |
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The three systems work together and balance.
Most ppl can't achieve this balance |
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ID dominant: impulsive, selfish, greedy, rude, frustrating
Ego dominant: cold, robotic, devoid of desire, routine oriented
Superego dominant: overly moral, religious, may project judgements onto others |
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-really SUBJECTIVE
TOOLS:
- Hypnosis
- Rohroschach Ink Blots
- Word Associations
- Picture tests/story tests
- Dream Analysis (real/symbolic)
Interview Session:
- Goal: to create a pattern of infor that MATCHES info found by other tools (not eye contact, relaxed position)
TOOLS + Interview: can create a theme: the unconcious |
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lives long enought to see theories discredited
dies a lonely bitter man
IMPORTANCE? The DIRECTION he led psych. in |
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Swiss (d. 1961) FFF (former Freud follower)
believes in unconcious, but two parts to it |
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