Individualistic Theories - Freud Evaluation

Question 1

Freud
- Strengths

Answer 1

1. Id, ego and superego has found to roughly correlate to different parts of the brain and their functions and development
2. helped us to develop therapies such as psychoanalysis

Question 2

Freud
- Weaknesses

Answer 2

1. largely untestable due to ideas such as “unconscious mind”
2. very discredited in modern therapeutic methods which moves away from psychoanalysis and uses more things such as CBT