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'The Psychoanalytic model of human behaviour explains everything and predicts nothing' Discuss Psychoanalysis was introduced in the 1890's by the Austrian, Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis is concerned with the unconscious basis for behaviours, phobias, desires and anxieties. This essay will investigate whether Freud's theories of psychoanalysis help predict how a child may develop, whether the psychoanalytical model can successfully foretell the pathologies Freud researched. In the other psychological disciplines, many experiments and tests are conducted in order to be able to predict how a person may turn out. John Watson (1924) claimed that men are built, not born and given a dozen healthy infants could train them to either be doctors or thieves. Freud never claimed this; the idea would be completely against his nature. Although he had theories on child development they were focused on fixations, and did not make any predictions unlike Watson's. None of Freud's subjects were children, which makes...

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