After watching the video “A Conversation with Aaron Beck” I agree with the speaker it was very useful for our society to be able to have some type of proof of the psychoanalytic theory, Sigmund Freud’s original theory. I found very interesting the way he used depression in order to example the psychoanalytic theory. Dr. Aaron Beck exampled that according to the psychoanalytic theory for some reason people tend to have a lot of hostility (the state of having bad feelings). Hostility for us it seems as a bad thing therefore it is hardly acceptable in society and as consequence people tend to repress the hostility. Once that feeling is repressed we create a barrier call defense mechanism and it then gets deflected internally. The moment the hostility gets reflected internally, them a lot of different symptoms start appearing.
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Aaron Beck some of those symptoms are feeling bad about our self and been very self-critical. As consequence we tend to have suicidal thoughts and as he explained it is all due to hostility against the self. I personally found it very interesting the way it explained and to me it makes sense that a when people are going through depression for example they tend to develop something that in this case is hostility. Unfortunately, at that time there was no independent evident to support this theory. However, Dr. Aaron Beck knew that something thing in that theory was right because clinically every make sense. Therefore his idea of looking into people dreams in this case depressed and no depressed patients. I personally think it make sense too since Sigmund Freud was all into the interpretation of the dreams, he even wrote a book about
Aaron Beck some of those symptoms are feeling bad about our self and been very self-critical. As consequence we tend to have suicidal thoughts and as he explained it is all due to hostility against the self. I personally found it very interesting the way it explained and to me it makes sense that a when people are going through depression for example they tend to develop something that in this case is hostility. Unfortunately, at that time there was no independent evident to support this theory. However, Dr. Aaron Beck knew that something thing in that theory was right because clinically every make sense. Therefore his idea of looking into people dreams in this case depressed and no depressed patients. I personally think it make sense too since Sigmund Freud was all into the interpretation of the dreams, he even wrote a book about