Unconscious motivation

United States, 1949

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Demonstrates how unconscious motives can influence and direct everyday thoughts. A demonstration of hypnosis of two subjects during which an experimental neurotic conflict is produced, is allowed to manifest itself in the posthypnotic conscious state, and is then relieved by aiding the subjects to recall the implanted traumatic material. Of interest to psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, psychiatric nurses, medical students and students of psychology.

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Credits

production company

Hartley Productions

Duration

00:38:20:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1949

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

011305

Language

English

Subject categories

Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Medicine - Study and teaching

Educational & Instructional

Educational & Instructional → Instructional

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Behaviorism (Psychology)

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Hypnotism

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medical sciences

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medicine - Study and teaching

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medicine, Experimental

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychiatric nursing

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychiatry

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychoanalysis

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychological tests

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychologists

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Medical sciences

Short films

Short films → Short films - United States

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Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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