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i remember there were some experiments done with monkeys in attempt to prove something about the oral stage in humans (the first psychosexual stage). sorry i can't remember anymore but i learned about it in my first year psych class.
but on the whole yeah freud's system, like all psychoanalytical systems, shouldn't be considered scientific. CS is right, it's disturbing some psychologists can't see that freud isn't science, but is an answer for everything. most see just fine i think though.
the question is though is not whether freud pulled his model out of his ass, but whether it works in practice or not (sessions). in the past psychoanalytic sessions lasted for years, several times a week, and were very expensive. so maybe concrete numbers of success/fail are hard to come by. does anyone know if it's still like this?
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