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• Gender Bias

  Freud's views of women and female sexuality were less well developed than his views on male sexuality. Despite the fact that his theories were focused on sexual development, Freud seemed content to remain ignorant of female sexuality and how it may differ from male sexuality. This led psychoanalysts such as Karen Horney, who broke away from Freudian theory, to criticise his work, particularly his views on women and their development.
• Limitations to the psychodynamic explanation: historically bias

  • AS his theory relies on a nuclear family, with 2 parents or different sex being able to deal effectively with both Electra and Oedipus complex
  • Researchers have shown that children raised in one parent homes had normal gender Identity development
  • Therefore, freuds theory lack predictive validity