th. Psychoanalysis is a good theory at accounting for and interpreting how what has already happened in the past can affect a person, but it is unscientific in most areas is not always easy to accept or confirm. Fisher and Greengerg, (1977) argue:Psychoanalytic theory cannot be accepted or rejected as a total package, it is a complex structure consisting of many parts, some of which should be accepted, others rejected and the rest at least partially reshaped. (Gross, The Science of Mind and Behaviour, p915)This essay has discussed and reviewed the story of psychoanalysis and in conclusion to all of the above evidence, it suggests that you cant confirm psychoanalysis but you dismiss it either. As we have no way of showing that psychoanalysis is wrong then nor do we have the grounds for accepting that it is totally correct. It is difficult when dealing with feelings and emotions to say that anything is certain, as all people are individual and they all think, feel, develop and behave in different ways. Another point is that Freuds theory makes use of concepts which can not be directly observed, only inferred. Psychoanalysis is a good story to make sense of behaviour but it really is a story, the truth of which can never be wholly confirmed. ...
