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Running head: THE FUTURE OF FREUD 1 The Future of Freud Ashlee T. Byers Grand Canyon University October 21, 2020

THE FUTURE OF FREUD 2 Through research and study medical monitoring and empirical research have supported Sigmund Freud’s drive theory. What is a drive? Well, drive can be considered an internal force within a person to satisfy an appetite. During the early stages of psychoanalysis, Freud considered drive to be an extremely important aspect of his theory of instincts. Research shows that the human body consistently strives for a homeostatic state and when it is disturbed, the body forms a “drive” as a reaction (Compton, 1981). Much like any other discipline, psychology and psychoanalysis have completely evolved over the decades. Much of Sigmund Freud’s traditional practices and theories have been outdated and progressed into modern psychology, but some of his original ideas do remain essential to the field. Modern mental practice allows for some ideas like the developmental approach, transference, dynamic unconscious, countertransference, and the defense mechanisms to have a valid mainstay within practice, application, and contemporary insights to the improvement of patient management and care (Ulberg & Dahl, 2018). During his time, Freud’s vision of psychoanalysis could be considered a metapsychology, or theoretical and speculative psychology, describing what lies beyond the traditional law and facts. Currently, these psychoanalytic students are much more accepted and have been more entrenched inside of empirical research. The models of the mind’s structure and how it functions tend to employ the clinicians’ patient interest, establishing a therapeutic interaction. (Ulberg & Dahl, 2018). Thus, the drive increases over a span of time, operating like a thermostat, to control feedback. The question is often askes of whether psychoanalysis is actually relevant and whether it is valid in the realm of psychology. Much of this skepticism and questioning can be attributed to there being too much emphasis placed by Freud on a person’s childhood. Over time, many of his

THE FUTURE OF FREUD 3 theories, including those most provocative, have been proven wrong, or at the least, extremely outdated. With Freud being the father of psychoanalysis, it can only be expected that the field itself would be questioned in modern day. The question of whether it should be considered a validated, scientific theory depends on the era of use. Today’s psychoanalysis should indeed be considered a scientific research program. There are still many questions regarding whether the psychoanalytic approach offers the proper scientific evidence regarding the ideas and information that the theory proposes. Criticism of the Freudian psychoanalytic theory is typically directly linked to the attempts to connect it with academic and scientific psychology. Freudian theory is proactive and dramatic, often toggling between coping with aggressive and primitive sexual urges and trying to deliver or cure patients from neurosis while attempting to convince others to adopt their viewpoint. The question of what general problems are explored in the field of psychology is met by the question of whose eyes might one be viewing the “problems” through. There are several issues, as with any other field, which the behavioral health field is facing. There are also issues that tend to endure within the field that clinicians and other professionals are attempting to rectify with their work. There are several key issues that divide the professional psychologists into debate: nature vs. nurture, free will vs. determinism, conscious vs. unconscious mind, individual difference vs. universal principles, and psychology as a science (McLeod, 2017). Nature vs. Nurture is frequently debated to the extent of whether human behavior is inherited or acquired through influences. Nature could be considered a type of predisposition or prewiring that is inherited through genetics. Nurture is the response to external factors that influence behavior, like life experiences, individual learning, and exposure. Free will vs. determinism is a debate surrounding human behavior, again. This debate surrounds the

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