AO3 Flashcards
1
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Positive evaluations - explanatory power
A
Freud has had influence on personality disorders, abnormalities, moral development, gender, attachment
2
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Negative evaluation- psychic determinism
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- free will is an illusion, behaviour determined by conflict from childhood
- slip of you glue has deep symbolic meaning as its come from unconscious mind
- no accidents
3
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Negative evaluations- gender bias
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- alpha bias
- femininity seen as failed masculinity
4
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Positive evaluation- pracitical application
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- psychoanalysis used to access unconscious
- eg. dream analysis and hypnosis
- therapeutic tool for neuroses
- however unable to treat more severe mental disorders eg. schizophrenia
