In this video I provide example mnemonics, or memory aids, for remembering important names in the history of psychology including Wilhelm Wundt, Edward Titchener, William James, G. Stanley Hall, Mary Whiton Calkins, Margaret Floy Washburn, Sigmund Freud, and B.F. Skinner, … Read More
Freudian Defense Mechanisms
In this video I describe several of the defense mechanisms theorized by Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna Freud. These defense mechanisms provide ways of coping with anxiety, which could be reality anxiety, neurotic anxiety, or moral anxiety. While these … Read More
Psychoanalysis & Freudian Personality Structure: Id, Ego, & Superego
In this video I review the fundamental ideas of psychoanalysis and the Freudian unconscious, then I describe Freud’s personality structure of the id, ego, and superego. The id is the animal drives of personality, powered by libido and operating on … Read More
Finding Freud’s Legacy in Neuroscience?
This is a link to an interesting article from Discover Magazine which looks at the intersection of Freudian psychoanalysis and modern-day neuroscience research. It covers quite a lot of ground along the way, considering cases of brain damage, anosognosia, Damasio’s … Read More