Why doesnt psychoanalytic theory fit in the criteria of a scientifically valid theory?

Question

I need an answer that can help me write a paragraph

Answer 1

A scientifically valid theory produces hypotheses that are tested.

In order to explain, I'll utilize the rants of a non-answer answer.
If the hypothesis that women are "defective males" could be proven, the theory would be demonstrated. What is postulated does not invalidate the theory, but the theory must be proven.

Further, the test to validate, must be free of bias. If I were to select a troubled group of women and compare them to well-adjusted males, I might get the result I'm looking for, but it is hardly proven (yet it is not disproven).

Lastly, you need to exclude confounders -- things that go together -- but may relate to something else. Our ranter used a spurious argument to make a non-point. You could classify her as a "defective male" for making the point. Unfortunately, the confounder could be the fact that Freud's theories were misogynistic and that her anti-Freud rants (and not all psychoanalytic theory is Freudian), so she is not a "defective male", but an "anti-Freudian female" whose illogic, if improperly attributed, might be used to try to prove the point.

Answer 2

How can you "measure a mind."

Every mind is different and reacts differently, therefore getting 2 tests to do the same thing is almost impossible. Most scientific theory has to do with "physical properties" such as gases, gravity, light, things in physics and chemistry that are actually "comparable and measurable." However, with something like the mind and its many variations, how do you measure what would break one person and barely effect another?

Answer 3

The main difference is the human condition. That of thought and actions while the scientific theory is concerning mechanical or biochemical reaction.

Answer 4

It tends to take facts and fit them into a pattern, instead of seeing trends and making predictions. As such, it can't be disproven. Science has to be disprove-able.

Answer 5

It's totally bullsh#t look up Freud and you'l'l see. He thinks women are "defective males" and we are inferior and long for a penis. He thinks children want to have sex with the parent of opposite sex. The whole thing is stupid

Answer 6

There is no concrete black and white when it comes to philosophy. Every thing is gray and dependent on your upbringing, religion, ethnicity, and thought process.