AO3

• weakness for psychosexual stages

  • criticised for psychic determinism
  • individual controlled by internal and external factors, stages that inevitably cause behaviour, oral fixations resulting into smoking
  • neglects role of free will, and choice we have, leaving individuals felling like they have no control over their behavoiur
  • limiting appropriateness
• strength

  • has practical applications
  • behaviour caused by unconscious mind has led to psychoanalysis, treat abnormalities, such as depression and anxiety, by dealing with conflicts hidden in the unconscious
  • important part of applied psychology, helps to treat people
• weakness

  • Frueds theory based on case studies of single individuals in therapy
  • lack population validity, difficult to generalise his findings, to create general laws to explain human behavoiur through the approach