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How psychoanalysis fairs as compared to other theories of personality & scope of future psychoanalysis/ psychodynamic theory?

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Ever since its proposal more than a hundred years ago by a French psychologist, Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis has been one of the main stays of therapeutic interventions in case of depressed, anxiety ridden and phobic psychotic patients.
Catharsis is one of the main components of psycho analytic therapy and it does work.

As long as Freud's theory of personality will be held credible and as long as psycho analysis is used in the practice of psychological evaluation of patients, psycho-analysis will have a strong hold ...

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