The Unconscious

For this weeks lecture we had two physcho analyists, Liz Monahan and Brian O'Connor who came into us. They explained what physcho analyists do and how they are different to therapists. Physcho analyists work with people to unravell their problems, it is more about what they dont say that they try to understand and come up with a reason or solution.

They spoke about a man, Singmund Freud. He has written books 100 years ago on this subject. Freud invented psychoanalysis and the method of understanding The Unconscious.
 

One of freuds first patients was Anna O, her symtoms were halluciations, word salads, cough, lost a limb, became paralysed. Whern she would speak it woudnt make sense but when you thought of it you nwould be able to see what she was trying to say. One of her sentences was "wood-dead cousin", her father had just died and her cousin had came for funeral and had collect wood for the fire. Freud tried to see if he could help her. The only way to unravel a symthom is to talk about it.

Liz and brian explained to us about our mind, there is only a small part of out mind that is open. The tip of it is called "The superego" which is our conscience and then the other part id out "ego" but underneath all that is our "Un concious" we are not open to that ourselves.

Here is a link of the Prezi that Liz and Brian used http://prezi.com/69ajnnur13ie/st-a/

Mark Polluck

Yesterday as our lecture for the day we had guest speaker Mark Polluck come in and talk about his story.

Mark pollock is blind and paralysed from the waist down, he wasnt always blind or paralysed. Before this happened he lead a normal life in fact he was a student at Trinity College and studied business and economics and alswell he was on the irish rowing team.

Unfortunatley in 1998 Mark lost his sight as his retina detatched. He stopped rowing and going to college, he thought his life was over. After a couple of months mark got back up on his feet and started giving lectures on his suituation and how to get the strength to over come it.

Mark started training again and over came oppsticles that he wouldnt have done unless he was blind. Mark started his own business and went back to college to do a masters in business studies. He took part in many adventures, raced to the south pole and came 5th he also did six marathons in the Koby desert in seven days.

In 2010 Mark had an acident, while attending a rowing regatta he fell off a two story balcony and fell to the ground. Mark seriously injured himself, when people found him they had to start his breathing again. When he got to the hospital the nurses thought he was going to die. His skull was fractured, he was bleeding in his brain, broken ribs and his lungs were filled with blood. He was on morphine 24/7 for weeks on end. When he finally regained conciousness he realised he was paralysed from the waist down, this was a tragic time for Mark. He was in intensive care for months, in the end he was in hospital for 18 months. It was very hard for him but from the support of his friends, family and doctors he pulled through it.

Now Mark gives inspiring speaches and lectures to people across the country and tells them about his life story and everything he has achieved and accomplished. Although his life is tough and challenging he takes it in his stride and now is training himself to walk again by various exercises and he can feel an improvment as he is starting to get feeling back in his lower half.

In my TY english class we are doing film studdies at the moment. Our class has just finished watching our first movie which was "The Others", directed and also written by Alejandro Amenábar. "The Others" was made in 2001 and stars Nicole Kidman, Christopher eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann, James Bently.

The movie is set straight after World War 2, in a remote country house in Jersey where Grace, Nicole Kidman lives there with her two young photosensitivive children Anne and Nicholas, played by Alakina and James. Their father Charles, Christopher is away at war. There is also servants living with them, Mrs. Mills, Mr.Tuttle and Lydia.

Durning the film strange things start to happen and it leads Grace and the children to believe they are not alone in the house and that there i something going on.

I really enjoyed the film as the suspense was built up throughout and aslo it isd all so mysterious it leaves you intrigued and wanting to watch more. The actors all played a briallant part in the movie and captured everything perfectly.

I would highly recommend this movie to all as it is a great story line and is very interesting and exciting.