Question

Describe the relationship between psychoanalysis and mainstream academic psychology.

Answer 1

Psychoanalysis can be defined as the list of theories and approach to therapy that is based on the work of sigmund freud where the cause of the mental or emotional problem is unconscious in nature.

Psyhoanalysis now is considered or has become the base for mainstream academic psychology. The ideas and concepts from psychoanalysis such as the conscious and unconscious mind is very much a part of mainstream academic psychology. The other concepts are also included and taught in academic psychology schools along with their criticism as many of the concepts and ideas can be unsystematic and has no methodology.