Conversion Hysteria

Freud believed human behavior was not consciously controlled, and credited three parts in the mind to any psychological activity. These are called the unconscious, the preconscious and the conscious. Personality too was given three parts, the id, the super ego and the ego. Freud believed these parts in our mind have their individual parts to play in the way we go about life. He also stated the only way to work through conflicts that arise from our subconscious and unconscious mind is through dream analysis and psychoanalysis. Other key concepts in psychodynamic theory are the psychosexual stages of development, anxiety, defence mechanisms, and free association.

In “The Lame Shall Enter First,” Flannery O’Connor illustrates the theme of incompleteness in human nature when dealing with a major loss.

Psychoanalysis is Sigmund Freud’s work, thought to be created between 1900 and 1939, which still is a very vibrant thread in history and psychology today. According to Sigmund Freud the unconscious mind is a reservoir of repressed impulses and desires in your mind, while you may be completely awake you are still unaware of the mental processes that are taking place. Though the repressed impulses control the way we think, act, and above all feel. Freud also talks about the conflict within each individual between the internalized ideals (your superego) and impulses (your id), also how your ego (your conscious self) tries to keep out the awareness of such using a defense mechanism to distort reality

Josef Breuer, a respected internist, was also heavily influenced by Charcot. He tried to cure a patient suffering from numerous symptoms through hypnosis and suggestion, but failed. he noticed however that while the patient was under a hypnotic trance, she started to talk about her symptoms, and he encouraged her to discuss the original incident that caused her problems. Breuer told Freud about this experience and others, and in 1893 they published the first psychoanalytic essay.

Sigmund Freud was born in Freiberg, Moravia in 1856. Freud was a distinguished child. He attended medical school in Vienna; from there he became actively embraced in research under the direction of a physiology. He was engrossed in neurophysiology and hoped for a position in that field but unfortunately there were not enough positions available. From there, he spent some of his years as a resident in neurology and director of a children’s ward in Berlin. Later on, he returned to Vienna and married his fiancée, Martha Bernays. He continued his practice of neuropsychiatry in Vienna with Joseph Breuer as his assistant. Freud achieved fame by his books and lectures; which brought him “both fame and ostracism from mainstream of the medical

Sigmond was influenced from Josef Breur, also a doctor. Josef was able to get a hysterical patient to talk about her earliest symptoms unconsciously (A & E Television networks, 2016). “Freud posited

Sigmund Freud, born on May 8th, 1856, was the founder of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysts believed that human behavior, experience, and cognition were largely determined by irrational drives which were mostly unconscious. Freud further developed the mechanisms of repression and established a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and their respective psychoanalyst. Though psychoanalysts are not very common in our current day, other forms of psychotherapy have developed that employs diverging ideas, originating from Freud’s original thoughts and approach to studying the mind (Boeree).

Freud created the Psychodynamic Approach to explain behaviour. Within it, he describes that there are 3 components of the human mind: The conscious, Pre-conscious and Unconscious. The conscious is the part of the mind which is in our awareness; it contains behaviours and desires which we are aware of. The pre-conscious is the part of the mind between the conscious and unconscious, it contains items such as memories and desires which we are not currently thinking about but can easily bring to conscious awareness. Lastly is the unconscious. This part of the mind is

Anna O was 21 year old patient of Breuer. Anna O had developed strange symptoms while taking care of her father who was ill. She developed a cough along with paralysis, hallucinations, hysteria, and loss of feeling in her arms and legs as well as muscle spasms. Breuer could not figure out why Anna was experiencing these types of symptoms so he deemed it hysterical neurosis (Heller, 2005). While under hypnosis Anna’s symptoms were not as severe and she could recall dramatic events that had taken place in her life prior to her symptoms. We now know that Freud used Anna’s case to help develop his clinical experience even though he never treated or worked with her. Freud implemented free association into clinical practice that allowed the patient to speak freely and express their opinions about

Freud’s legacy, however, would be placed into his new, innovative clinical methodology that was intended to treat psychological disorders through naught but conversations between a clinician and his/her patient. The methodology was dubbed “psychoanalysis,” and would shape almost every aspect of the neurologist’s

For many centuries, students of human nature considered the idea of an unconscious mind as self contradictory. However, it was noticed by philosophers such as St. Augustine, and others, as well as early experimental psychologists, including Gustav Sechner, and Hermann Von Helmholtz, that certain psychological operations could take place without the knowledge of the subject. Jean Sharcot demonstrated that the symptoms of post-traumatic neuroses did not result from lesions of the nervous tissue but from unconscious representations of the trauma. Pierre Janet extended this concept of “unconscious fixed ideas” to hysteria, wherein traumatic representations, though split off from the conscious mind, exert an action upon the conscious mind in the form of hysterical symptoms. Janet was an important influence on Carl Jung, and he reported that the cure of several hysterical patients, using hypnosis to discover the initial trauma and then having it reenacted by the patient, was successful. Josef Breuer also treated a hysterical patient by inducing the hypnotic state and then elucidating for her the circumstances which had accompanied the origin of her troubles. As the traumatic experiences were revealed, the symptoms disappeared.

Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Friedberg, Moravia. Freud considered himself a scientist above all other titles. He studied biology and eventually specialized in neurology. He was impressed by hypnosis and the effects on hysteria. He and Josef Breuer studied hypnosis and determined that it was a temporary treatment for long term problem. They realized that the hysteria was brought on by traumatic experiences in the subjects past and hidden in consciousness. Freud and Breuer differed in the opinion that sexuality is the main basis for hysteria, as well as other diseases. As a result Breuer decided to no longer work with Freud. Freud continued his research on psychoanalysis without his associate. He wrote over twenty volumes of theoretical work and revisions.

Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 into a Jewish home in Vienna (Weiten, 2016). He became a physician and specialised in neurology, eventually dedicating himself to the treatment of mental disorders, using a procedure he developed himself known as Psychoanalysis (Weiten, 2016). Freud was also obsessed with sex and sexual urges (Weiten, 2016). Freud developed his Psychoanalytic theory out of his workings with his patients (Weiten, 2016). “This theory attempts to explain personality,

Freud was interested by how Charcot used a hypnosis to treat hysteria. Freud started to experiment with hypnotherapy. He concluded that hypnotherapy effected patients and it could be

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