Freud
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- Created on: 08-05-15 15:34
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- Freud
- Aim
- To report the findings of the treatment of a 5 year old boy for his phobia of horses.
- Background
- Psychodynamic perspective - all behaviour can be explained by the inner conflicts of the unconscious mind.
- Participants
- Little Hans, a 5 year old boy.
- Procedure
- Case study, mainly carried out by Hans' father - knew and supported Freud. Father-son relationship enabled the study to be successful. Freud only met with Hans once.
- Hans was always interested in his 'widdler' and wondered if all other things had one.
- He was told at 4 years old that if he touched his penis, the doctor would come and cut it off.
- Conclusions
- Freud said Hans was a little Oedipus.
- Hans was at the phallic stage of development.
- Unconsciously, his fear of castration showed in his fear of horses.
- By the age of five, Hans had overcome the Oedipus complex and passed through the Phallic stage.
- Evaluation
- Case studies give a large amount of qualitative data which is subjective to the researcher to analyse and interpret.
- Focused on only one child - generalisation not possible.
- Lots of leading questions were asked to Hans about his feelings.
- Results
- Freud said that Hans was repressing his desire to **********.
- Hans associated being told to not put his finger on his penis with horse biting and developed a castration complex.
- Plumber fantasy - plumber would come and take off his penis and bottom and replace them with bigger ones.(Castration complex is overcome & he realises that it will just get bigger).
- Giraffe fantasy - Little giraffe crumpled (mothers genitals) & big giraffe(fathers penis) called out when Hans took the crumpled one and sat on it (sex).
- He also had fantasies of him and his mother with their own children playing in the garden with Hans' father as the grandfather.
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