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... seems was trying to prove that he you could condition a person to do anything, whereas Freud was looking at the reasons why people would have strange behaviours. In all other schools of Psychology, researchers are expected to project the outcomes of their theoretical models. This is not possible within the psychoanalytic model; no easily repeatable experiments or tests can be done nor is it possible to make clear predictions. Freud commented: "Mediocre spirits demand of science a kind of certainty which it cannot give, a sort of religious satisfaction. Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge. I always envy the physicists and mathematicians who can stand firm ground. I hover, so to speak, in the air. Mental events seem to be immeasurable and probably always will be." Sigmund Freud (Freud as cited in Ward & Zarate) Freud used a lot of case ...
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