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Question: ‘Psychoanalysis is a part of the mental science of psychology’ (Freud, 1938: 282.) Discuss this assertion with respect to Freud’s views on the development of personality.
Answer: Since the first critiques of psychoanalysis, there has been widespread disagreement between psychologists regarding the status of psychoanalysis as a science; contemporarily, the debate still rages. Recently, cognitive behavioural therapists have declared psychoanalysis to be without a “shred of evidence” (Norcross cited in The Observer, 19th February 2006) while leading psychoanalysts attack cognitive behavioural therapy as “crude” and “lacking in nuance” (Samuels, ibid). This essay will discuss Freud’s assertion of psychoanalysis as part of the mental science of psychology with respect to his views on the development of personality:...(short extract)
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- Subject: Psychology
- Course: Health Psychology and Psychopathology
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 70%
- Words: 2117
- Date submitted: January 05, 2009
- Date written: February, 2006
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 3004
