History of Psychology
First Edition
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the European public’s loss of optimism at the end of the nineteenth century and how it provided a fertile ground for Freud’s theorizing.
- Review the five axes of the DSM-5.
- Appraise the approaches to mental health and therapy before Freud.
- Compare and contrast Freud’s technique of free association to a normal hour of conversation with a friend.
- Critique Freud’s criterion of therapeutic success.
- Propose some examples from your experience that might support Jung’s collective unconscious.
- List the ways that Adler’s therapy differed from Freud’s.
- Interpret how Anna Freud’s work at the Hampstead War Nurseries affected how hospitals changed their handling of children’s long-term stays.