Anna Freud

In this essay I will discuss three psychologist I believe to be most influential in the psychological field. Wilhelm Wundt, the first psychologist I shall discuss, contributed to the establishment of psychology being classified as a separate science. He was able to achieve this by, setting up the first psychological laboratory in 1879 in Germany (http://www.simplypsychology.org/wundt.html) with the intention of carrying out experiments in carefully controlled conditions in order to find…

studies in the late nineteenth century. Freud took on the direction that the repression process is a defence against emotional trauma. The term repression was used to describe painful and emotional events, that are able to be blocked out from an individual’s conscious awareness. This is so that the painful effects of the event would not be experienced and intentionally forgotten (Cohen, 1985). The repression process is an automatic psychological defence. Freud stated that the opposite of…

that I find Sigmund Freud to be one of the greatest influences to psychology. Many of his ideas were very controversial but, I believe have helped to open many gateways for the path that psychology is on today. Freud heightened the idea of the unconscious and really shed more light on it, while bringing more about it into perspective. The unconscious, sexuality, psychological energy, psychological resistance were all someone else’s ideas before Freud’s but as stated by Shiraev Freud put these…

Sigmund Schlomo Freud was born May 6th, 1856 in Pribor, Czech Republic. He was the first born of eight children of his Jewish family which was not finically stable. In 1857 his father lost his job and the family had to move to Vienna. When Sigmund was younger he knew a significant amount of different languages such as German, French, Italian, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. After he graduated high school he studied at the University of Vienna where he graduated with his degree as a Doctor of Medicine…

Sigmund Freud was born on the 6th of May, 1856, where he was raised until the age of 4 in Freiberg, Moravia. In 1860 Freud being only 4 years old moved with his family of 10 to Vienna. He attended school and graduated from the Medical School of Vienna at the age of 25 in 1881. Freud received his medical degree and only a year later got married to his lovely wife Martha Bernays. At this time in his life he discovered that he would like a change of occupation and he found a fascination in…

were to do it in the most painful way. Eventually one day a man changed that idea, and helped create a better bond between professional and patient; Sigmund Freud was that man. His life was not terrible, but it wasn’t perfect; in fact he had a perfectly normal life until his later years where conflicts started in different areas of his life. Freud managed to stir up trouble as well as create ingenious solutions to prior problems that many professionals faced. On May 6, 1856 in Freiberg,…

venture into an area of science that had never even been touched before by any scientist. Sigmund Freud and his studies on psychoanalysis have certainly impacted science in a major way. In his career, he collaborated with another scientist, wrote two books, allowed for new schools to open, and most importantly, he revolutionized the way people thought about the human mind (Palmer, Colton, and Kramer). Freud devoted his life to studying the human mind, impacting the mental health field across the…

The Father of American Psychology is a bold title to bestow upon a man, particularly one whose interests sometimes strayed so far from scientific norms. Even so, there is no doubt that William James contributed much to the field of psychology as a whole and shaped many of the ideals held dear in the study of psychology. From his theories on emotion, consciousness, and will to his pragmatic and functionalist contributions it is not difficult to see that James had a heavy hand in shaping the field…

major influences on Freud were Josef Breuer and Jean Charcot. Josef Breuer was a well-known neurologist and was known at the time for being able to treat hysteria successfully. He had a patient who they called “Anna O” who he diagnosed with hysterical neurosis. Breuer helped relieve those symptoms by using hypnosis, which would help her recall some past memories and then they could discuss them. He labeled this technique as the “talking cure.” Freud was fascinated by the case of Anna O. and this…

case along with being one of the first clinical examples of its kind is a shining example of false memories. After Anna O described her problems with Sigmund Freud in therapy he diagnosed her with having, “latent infantile sexuality”. Sigmund Freud took the memories that Anna O reported to him as actual repressed memories of real events and that he was recovering these memories in Anna O for the first time. This is described as a shining example of false memories because, it is the predecessor…