Evaluation

• Evaluate case study?

  • His theory based on single individuals (little hans)
  • Critics suggest that it it not possible to make universal claims about human nature based on a small number of individuals who were abnormal.
  • His interpretations were highly subjective- unlikely that other scientists would draw to the same conclusions
• evaluate practical application?

  • Freud introduced therapy called psychoanalysis
  • this involved techniques designed to access the unconscious, such as hypnosis.
  • psychoanalysis is a forerunner to many modern therapies
• counteract practical application.

  • however, psychoanalysis has been labelled as inappropiate for people suffering ever mental disorders like schizophrenia
• evalaute untestable concepts?

  • popper - psychodynamic approach does not meet scientific criterion of falsification
  • meaning it is not open to testing and possibility of being disproved
  • many concept (ID) occur at unconscious level which makes it impossible to test
  • popper named the approach pseudoscience