PSYC 397 Lecture Notes - Implicit-Association Test, Psychotherapy, Pseudoscience
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Pseudoscience, and features of psychoanalysis: does not use scientific method, cannot be reliably tested, lacks supporting evidence. Tricky because they are not replicable, not controlled, subject to bias, and are anecdotal. Psychoanalysis was helpful because it got the masses to go to therapy. Treatment now uses modern methods, such as cbt: psychoanalysis is actually a detriment because it keeps the public rooted in a 1950s perception of psychological treatment methods. We need to get the client off the couch and into the laboratory . Psychoanalysis, despite its flaws, has helped in the understanding of human behaviour and emotion, and should play a role in the study of modern psychology. Psychoanalysis influenced these fields: human sexuality, child psychology, trauma changing developmental trajectory, child is not a little adult, but goes through discrete psychosexual stages, developmental psychology, therapy, counseling approaches, talk therapy, patient-client analysis, implicit association test.