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Psychoanalysis is not simply a recasting of Freud's ideas. Many other practitioners developed the concept beyond just repressed sexuality. [[Carl Jung]] believed there was a range of traumatic events that could lead to repression and advocated for concepts like [[archetypes]] and [[synchronicity]]. Jung was also a proponent of [[dream interpretation]] as a mechanism for understanding the patients unconscious. He also believed in a [[collective unconscious]] that dreams could tap into.   

Psychoanalysis is not simply a recasting of Freud's ideas. Many other practitioners developed the concept beyond just repressed sexuality. [[Carl Jung]] believed there was a range of traumatic events that could lead to repression and advocated for concepts like [[archetypes]] and [[synchronicity]]. Jung was also a proponent of [[dream interpretation]] as a mechanism for understanding the patients unconscious. He also believed in a [[collective unconscious]] that dreams could tap into.   

Modern day practitioners of psychoanalysis are predominantly [[clinical psychology | clinically]] based. However, it is nowhere near as popular as it was in it prime during the mid 20th century. Some researchers in psychology are also interested in ideas of psychoanalysis. One psychoanalytic concept that has been supported by experimental evidence is the idea of [[Psychological defensive mechanisms]]. However, much of psychoanalysis has not stood up to [[empirical]] investigation. Repressed sexuality, dream interpretation, a collective unconscious and many other ideas that are the back bone of psychoanalysis have all been falsified in controlled experiments.  

Modern day practitioners of psychoanalysis are predominantly [[clinical psychology | clinically]] based. However, it is nowhere near as popular as it was in it prime during the mid 20th century. Some researchers in psychology are also interested in ideas of psychoanalysis. One psychoanalytic concept that has been supported by experimental evidence is the idea of [[Psychological defensive mechanisms]].{{fact-science}} However, much of psychoanalysis has not stood up to [[empirical]] investigation. Repressed sexuality, dream interpretation, a collective unconscious and many other ideas that are the back bone of psychoanalysis have all been falsified in controlled experiments.  

Psychoanalysis has also been labeled as unscientific because it lacks the ability to be falsified. [[Karl Popper]] is probably one of the most significant critics in this fashion. Ideas such as [[synchronicity]] state that some events are outside of causality, thus making attempts at empirical investigations impossible.  

Psychoanalysis has also been labeled as unscientific because it lacks the ability to be falsified. [[Karl Popper]] is probably one of the most significant critics in this fashion. Ideas such as [[synchronicity]] state that some events are outside of causality, thus making attempts at empirical investigations impossible.