S. Freud II

What I did like about Freud was that he believed all behavior was caused by antecedent affairs. Things such as slips of the tongue, dreaming, hallucinating, neurosis, repressing memories, and psychosis are caused by forces in the mind in relation to one's environment. Freud saw it as his mission to discover the nature of these causes and by understanding them, could act as a therapist for a patient and make changes for the better. A part of his theory stated that the patient was not morally responsible for his or her neurosis; that the state of their mental being came from influences brought upon us.

I agree with Freud here in the cases of people having chemical imbalances, growing up in situations that they can't help, and other events that would lead to situations of neurosis and the like. I do not agree with him in the way that, I'm assuming, all patients are responsible for their neurosis: what about a patient who ends up with a disorder because of decisions that they consciously made and they knew would lead to neurosis? I can't think of an extremely good example, but I know there are some out there. I just think their are some people out their who are responsible for the actions they make and cannot blame it on the forces in their mind.