PSYB30H3 Chapter 10: Chapter 10
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Today, psychoanalysis is probably best thought of as a theory containing ideas variously inspired by sigmund freud but modified and advanced by others. Westen is one of the most active proponents of contemporary psychoanalysis. Westen notes that contemporary psychoanalysts no longer write much about ids, superegos, and repressed sexuality; Instead, most contemporary psychologists focus their attention on childhood relationships and adult conflicts with others, such as difficulties becoming intimate or readily becoming intimate with the wrong kinds of persons. This neo-analytic viewpoint has wider currency and better empirical support, in some cases, than freud"s original ideas. Similarly, we should not assume that all recovered memories are true, just because some, such as ross cheit that we explored in chapter 9, have turned out to be true. One factor that might influence people to have false memories is the popular press.
