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his model of the psyche was firmly rooted in the Cartesian-empiricist philosophy that continues to dominate the scientific worldview. The most basic commitment of this model is the idea that we are discrete individual entities opposed to an objective, neutral world that exists independently of us.
- for: dualism, duality, dualism - Freud
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- Freud's model of the psyche was firmly rooted in the Cartesian-empiricist philosophy that continues to dominate the scientific worldview.
- The most basic commitment of this model is the idea that:
- we are discrete individual entities opposed to
- an objective, neutral world that exists independently of us.
- Per this model, we come to know and experience the world outside of us through a combination of:
- internally determined processes and
- the mental assimilation of data from the outside world.
- Minds, as such, are
- a prerequisite for experience, and
- experiences are essentially a result of cognition.
- This perspective perseveres today, for example, in the notion that
- we become familiar with other people’s internal worlds through our private theories of their minds.
- It also perseveres in the conceptual basis of CBT,
- which understands our experience of the world and relationships as being determined, in large part, by
- how we individually perceive and make sense of those things.
- which understands our experience of the world and relationships as being determined, in large part, by
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