Main focus:

• Our Childhood influences our behaviour unconsciously

• We have innate drives and motivation

• Nature

• Determinism

What does it ignore:

• Positive emotions

• ‘Normal’ individuals

• Biological factors

• Neurochemistry genetics

Who does it test on?:

• Humans only

• Anna O’s reaction to Little Hans (Mouse)

Preferred method of testing:

• Case studies

• Therapy

  • Free association

  • Dream analysis

  • Freudian slips

It isn’t scientific

Known for:

• Psychosexual stages

• Personality

• Defence mechanisms

Unconscious process