Repetition compulsion - reliving the child abuse into adulthood. re-enacting the abuse. repeating a traumatic event. sigmund freud: beyond the pleasure principle.
Sigmond Freud made a lot of hypotheses about psychology and he has very little empirical evidence to back up his claims. I am not saying that what he has said is all wrong, but you need to be leary of what you read in psychology, because a lot of it is not supported by empirical evidence.
I read a little about repetition compulsion after you said something about it in a post. The idea of repetition compulsion is that the mind wants to re-enact the trauma so that it con conquer the event. This is typically done in a controlled setting (i.e., the psychiatrists office).
Anyway, just be careful of what you believe when you read. if something is baked up by a lot of supporting empirical evidence, then it is probably a better bet to believe that information.
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Sigmond Freud made a lot of hypotheses about psychology and he has very little empirical evidence to back up his claims. I am not saying that what he has said is all wrong, but you need to be leary of what you read in psychology, because a lot of it is not supported by empirical evidence.
I read a little about repetition compulsion after you said something about it in a post. The idea of repetition compulsion is that the mind wants to re-enact the trauma so that it con conquer the event. This is typically done in a controlled setting (i.e., the psychiatrists office).
Anyway, just be careful of what you believe when you read. if something is baked up by a lot of supporting empirical evidence, then it is probably a better bet to believe that information.