Amygdala Psychology

The psychological function of energy development explains the reasoning behind our motives and behaviors. This function incudes the amygdala and hypothalumus. The amygdala associates perceptions with memories, so in Freud’s (1910) discussion about a patient with hysteria. Dr. Breuer’s patient had hysteria and did not drink the water out of the glass. After therapy, Breuer comes to the conclusions that since the patient previously saw her professor‘s (who she disliked) dog drinking out of a glass her unconscious mind always codnitioned a water glass with the dog, making her not wanting to drink water from a glass. The patient not wanting to drink from the glass represents the hysterical conversion of the patient. The energy development function

She was not allowed to complain when she was taking care of her father, so when she was asked to talk about it she was short because she was conditioned to not talking about her feelings when her dad was sick. The emotions that she experienced previously unconsciously made her shut down when she was asked about the topic. Freud talks about a force that stops patients from talking about a previous opinion. This force in unconscious and the patient resists to talk about the problem because of the pain the patient might have been through. Repression takes place with the energy development which makes them forget the event that occured because of how much resistance occurs throughout their lifetime. The force that Freud mentions resembles the energy development function because the force is what is causing them to act a certain way which is motive of the action. Another example of the relationship between freud’s (1910) psyhcodynamic theory about hysteria and Mayer and Allen’s (2013) psychological functions is the fact that Freud’s latent content resembles the reason why people have dreams and the meaning behind