One of the most serious criticisms of psychoanalytic theory is its:

a. reliance on tests.

b. lack of flexibility.

c. unrealistic optimism.

d. use of after-the-fact explanations.

c. unrealistic optimism.

One of the most substantial judgments of the psychoanalytic approach is that it puts considerably too much stress on childhood. Also, criticism has been proposed upon Freudian slips, assuming they do not originate from unconscious motivations, but moderately confusion in word retrieval from consciousness. Also, feud conception of suppression was reprimanded by a modern psychoanalyst who says suppression is the unusual phenomena and emotional repression and anxiety causes more real recognition of Event.