Question
What universities research psychic experiences?
Answer
An increasing amount of psychoanalytic research from academic psychologists and psychiatrists who have worked to quantify and measure psychoanalytic concepts has begun to address this criticism. However, a survey of scientific research showed that while personality traits corresponding to Freud's oral, anal, Oedipal, and genital phases can be observed, they cannot be observed as stages in the development of children, nor it be confirmed that such traits in adults result from childhood experiences (Fisher & Greenberg, 1977, p399). However, these stages should not be viewed as crucial to modern psychoanalysis. What is crucial to modern psychoanalytic theory and practice is the power of the unconscious and the transference phenomenon. However, the idea of "unconscious" is also contested. Human behaviour can be observed while human psychology have to be guessed at. The idea of unconscious and the transference phenomenon have been widely researched and, it is claimed, to be validated in the fields of cognitive psychology and social psychology, though such claims are also contested. The recent development in neuroscience resulted in one side arguing that it have provided a biological basis for unconscious emotional processing in line with psychoanalytic theory while the other side arguing that such finding make psychoanalytic theory obsolte and irrelevant.
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