Real world application to psychotherapy. Psychoanalysis was the first non-physical treatment for mental illness which assesses the unconscious (dream analysis). It brings repressed emotions to the conscious to be dealt with an is a forerunner for other therapies, such as counselling.
Psychodynamic Approach: Explanatory Power

Explains human behaviour such as personality development, moral development and abnormal behaviour. It establishes an association between childhood and later development.
Psychodynamic Approach: Untestable Concepts
Popper said that the concept of falsification as proposed by the psychodynamic approach cannot be tested. The id and oedipus complex occur at an unconscious level and can't be tested. The psychodynamic approach is pseudoscientific.
