Psychology / Unit 1 Psych 0013 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Psychoanalytic Theory
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The idea
Psychoanalytic theory holds that unconscious processes shape behavior and that early experience organizes adult personality.
In practice
Freud traced a patient's recurring anxiety to a conflict the patient could not report and did not know they held.
Where people slip
Influence is not evidence. Psychoanalysis reshaped the field while resisting the falsifiability test the field later adopted.
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