Psychoanalysis is a method of therapy.

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A big problem with this is a lot of Freudian theory is claimed to be validated in the course of psychoanalysis.

这里存在的一个大问题便是,精神分析理论中的很多内容,被认为是能够在精神分析的过程中,得到证实的。

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He fell out with Freud and alienated his peers by insisting not only that orgasms were a panacea, but also that psychoanalysis should be a tool for social change.

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Whether he was insane, and in what way, has been a matter of eager speculation since psychoanalysis turned posthumous diagnosis into a parlor game.

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His father died when Robert was 12, a trauma he did not acknowledge until he had a nervous breakdown and psychoanalysis in his 50s.

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