Sigmund Freud had become a noted physician in Austria while the structuralists were arguing, the funcsionalists were specializing, and the Gestaltists were looking at the big picture. He was a medical doctor -a neurologist,someone who specialize in disorders of the nervous system-and he and his colleagues had long sought a way to understand the patients who were coming to them for help.
Freud's patitent suffered form nervous disorders for which he and others doctors could find no physical cause. therefore,it was though, the cause must be in the mind,and that is where freud began to explore. he proposed that there is an unconscius (unaware) mind into which he pus,or repress,all of out threatening urges and desires.He believed that these repressed urges, in trying to surface,created the nervous disorders in his patients (Freud,et al.,1990).
Freud stressed the importance of early childhood experience,believing that personality was formed in the first six years of life;if there were significant problems,those problems must have begun in the early years.
some of his well known followers were Alfred Adler,Carl Jung, and his own daughter,Anna Freud. Anna Freud begun what became known as the ego movement in psychology that produced one of the most famous psychologists in the study of personality development,Erik Erikson.
Freud Ideas are still influential today,although in a somewhat modified form. He had a numbered of followers in addition to those already named,many of whom became famous by altering his theory to fit their own viewpoint,but his basic ideas are still discussed and debated.
freudian Psychoanalysis,the theory and therapy based on Freud's ideas,has been the basis of much modern psychotherapy,but another major and competing viewpoint has actually been more influential in the field of the psychology as a whole.
No comments:
Post a Comment