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PSYCHO-ANALYSIS
PSYCHO-ANALYSIS
ScnTech
is a system of mental therapy
developed
by Sigmund
Freud
in
Austria
in 1894 and which depends upon the
following
practices for its effects: the
patient
is made to
discourse
(free
associate
) on and
recall
his childhood for years while the practitioner effects a
transfer
of the
patient
's
personality
to his own and searches for hidden sexual
incidents
believed by
Freud
to be the only
cause
of
aberration
; the practitioner
reads
sexual
significance
into all
discourse
and
evaluates
it for the
patient
along sexual
lines
; the entirety of the
cases
of
psycho
-
analysis
have never been
tabulated
and little or no
testing
has been done to
establish
the
validity
of the system.
(
PAB
92)