Psychoanalysis

• Crime Control:

  • Treatment/Therapy to help the patient control their selfish instincts takes a long time
  • Methods like hypnosis, free association and regression are used to identify and treat psychological issues.
• August Aichhorn:

  • Aichhorn treated children with happy and pleasant environments to help develop their superego.
• Evaluation:

  • Eysenk found only 44% of psychoanalysis patients treated for neurosis improved. Compared to the 72% reacted in hospital
  • It’s Long and Expensive
  • Freud and other psychoanalysts can name behaviours as abnormal and deviant which can lead to abuse such as illegal treatments