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Describe psychoanalysis. Include information about its theoretical background, how it seeks to help people, its key concepts, and an evaluation of its effectiveness.
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* Psychoanalytic therapy was developed by Sigmund Freud with the goal of uncovering unconscious conflicts and feelings in order to bring them to the conscious level through a number of techniques including: free association, dream interpretation, resistance, and transference.
* Psychoanalytic therapy has been criticized because it is difficult to test many of its concepts.
* Evidence exists contrary to some of its assumptions (e.g., symptom substitution).
* It can be costly and requires a number of sessions over an extended period of time.
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