least favoured theory as an approach to working with offenders- its very costly and time consuming and unlikely to provide quick answers.T/F it has never been used large scale to treat criminals.
Ethical issues - a patient could remember things that caused great distress to them as there was a reason the memory was repressed.
Eysneck found only 44% of psychoanalysis patients treated for neurosis showed improvements compared to 72% treated by GP’s.