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Psychoanalytic Theory

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Psychoanalytic theory holds that unconscious processes shape behavior and that early experience organizes adult personality.

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Freud traced a patient's recurring anxiety to a conflict the patient could not report and did not know they held.

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Influence is not evidence. Psychoanalysis reshaped the field while resisting the falsifiability test the field later adopted.