Strength + Counterpoint 2

A strength of the psychodynamic approach is that it uses ___________, including support of its therapies

Case studies

For example, Freud used Little Hans as supporting evidence for the _______________

Oedipus complex

This is a strength as this idiographic approach, with its __________________ methods of investigation, fathered rich information about the lives of his individual patients using observations that were detailed and _______________

In-depth qualitative

Carefully recorded

However critics have suggested that it is not possible to make such ________________ of behaviour and personality development based on studies of such a ____________ of individuals who were psychologically abnormal

Universal laws

Small sample

This therefore questions whether the conclusions drawn from the case studies lack ______________ and whether they can be used to explain the __________ of the population as a whole

Population validity

Personality

Freud also relied on male case studies and examples and so could be criticised for…

Gender bias