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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
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"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. Introduction 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: firstly, the unconscious and the triarchic theory of personality will be considered, secondly, it will discuss the theory of the psycho-sexual stages of development, thirdly, the methodology of psychoanalysis will be examined. Finally,...
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