Prompt 1.
Why is the goal of psychoanalytic therapy “to make the unconscious conscious”? According to Freud, how can one accomplish this? Why do you think psychoanalytic therapy can take so long, sometimes even as long as a decade of one-hour sessions that meet multiple times per week? Once you have answered these questions, answer the following questions: What do you think of these ideas? What are the strengths of these ideas? What are the weaknesses? Do they appeal to you? Why, or why not?
Prompt 2.
Self-report is a valuable tool for collecting personality data. However, self-report may not be appropriate or ideal for collecting all kinds of data. When do you think self-report data would be particularly useful? Why? When do you think it might not be as useful? Why might self-report be problematic for collecting certain types of data? Use specific examples to demonstrate your positions.
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