Why should we study Freud?
Changes in Paradigm
Omnipresence of Freudian concepts in everyday life e.g dreaming
Freud is still influential in many areas such as Literature
A, B, and C are all reasons to study Freud
In the Middle Ages, what were mentally ill patients called?
Lunatics
Psychiatric patients
Strange
Poore
In the 18th Century, people believed that mental illness was caused by.....
Moral Insanity
Genetic causes
Taking drugs
Being an atheist
Where does the term 'Bedlam' originate?
This is an old term used to describe a mental disorder that was severe
Bethlem Royal Hospital
Berthlem Royal Hospital
Bedlam Hospital
Who would come and visit Bethlem Hospital and what would they do?
Psychiatrists would come to see how they could improve conditions for the patients
Religious people would come and pray for the patients and give them herbal remedies that were thought to heal mental disorders
The patients family would come to bring them food and water if they were going to have a chance of surviving
Rich people would come to observe, laugh, and poke the patients with sticks
Who was considered the 1st Psychotherapist?
Benjamin Rush
Franz Mesmer
Phillipe Pinel
Johann Weyer
Who performed techniques that influenced later developments of hypnotherapy?
Aristotle
Who was responsible for the discontinuation of Trephination and what was this replaced with?
Phillipe Pinel, detailed medical histories and conducted interviews.
Benjamin Rush, used the Tranquilizer chair instead.
All three of the above worked together to stop Trephination
Who introduced the Tranquilizer chair?
Freud
In the Mid 19th Century, humane approaches were sought and physical punishment of patients banned in an attempt to study mental illness scientifically and compassionately.
In the late 1800s, Syphilis was found to be a biological cause of 'insanity'
What were the issues with the medical model?
It is too simplistic to account for all mental disorders.
Many mental disorders don't have a biological cause.
None of the above
All of the above
What was developed as a result of the issues with the medical model?
Eugenics
Psychological models
Both A and B
The DSM
Who coined the term 'Eugenics'?
Francis Galton
Darwin
A and C developed it together
Freud believed that personality arises in an attempt to resolve conflicts between unconscious impulses and societal demands.
Freud believed in the life and death drives. These are equivalent to..
Sexual and Aggressive drives
Love and Fear drives
Anxiety and fear of death drives
A and B
What are parapraxes ?
Freudian slip
Repression of anxiety inducing memories
Oedipus or Electra Complex
All of the above come under the umbrella term 'paraprax'
What does Fixation mean and what is the consequence of it on personality?
Failed to progress through all 5 psycho-sexual stages and as a result is stuck in one stage. This impacts adult personality.
Stuck in one psycho-sexual stage. It only impacts childhood as the adult learns how to cope with the fixation as they grow up.
This is a tendency to become obsessive over certain things in your life
Your psyche becomes imbalanced and fixates on the id, ego, or superego. This can make it very difficult to adjust to adult life when issues arise.
How can unconscious complexes become conscious?
They are transformed in such a way that the original content is concealed, for example in a dream through symbols.
If the individual thinks really hard they can slowly have access to unconscious material in their minds.
A psychoanalyst must ensure that you progress through all of the psychosexual stages before any unconscious material can be uncovered.
It is impossible to get unconscious material to become conscious in any form.
What was Freud's inital interests?
Somatoform disorders e.g hysteria
Repression
The Psychosexual stages in childhood
All three of the above
Who said that Freud presented facts 'in the manner of myths' ?
Karl Popper
Jung
Skinner
Horney
The Seduction Hypothesis was Freud's belief that all mental disorders are caused by sexual abuse in childhood which are repressed by the individual.
How did Freud change his mind about his original theory ?
He did extensive research and found evidence that his original theory was not accurate.
He had an incestuous dream about his mother and concluded that women who said they were abused by their fathers were just engaging in fantasy.
Freud and Jung found that many of the women they conducted interviews with had not been abused but still had a mental illness.
A and C
