Category : E-Books
Author : Peter
Muris
Publisher :
Elsevier
Year :
2007
Pages :
397
Language :
English
File Type : Pdf
Size :
1.743 KB
Review : This book is titled Normal and
Abnormal Fear and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents, and as such
it covers many aspects of these internalizing symptoms in youths. However, another
focus of the book is What Was Really
Wrong with Little Hans? That
is, many of the sections in this book discuss why some children develop serious
fear and anxiety problems. In Freud’s (1909/1955) opinion, Little Hans was
afraid of horses because he suffered from a so-called Oedipus complex. That is,
Hans wanted to have sex with his mother and therefore expected to be punished
by his father. As a result, Hans became afraid of his father. However, this was
considered as unacceptable by his Ego, and therefore the fear was displaced to
another object, resulting in a phobia of horses. From a scientific point of
view, Freud’s analysis of the case is of course unacceptable, as the main
concepts of his account (i.e., Oedipus complex, Ego) cannot be validated
empirically (Eysenck, 1985). Moreover, after a reanalysis of the case, Wolpe
and Rachman (1960) rightly indicated that there was no convincing connection
between Little Hans’s sexual behavior and his phobia of horses. Further, these
authors pointed at a number of negative learning experiences (e.g., Hans witnessed
a horse crashing on the street), which likely played a more plausible role in
the aetiology of Hans’s phobic symptoms.
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