Freud, who later called this sort of conflict within the counselor countertransference , stayed, and studied, and thought, and smoked cigars, and founded the school of psychoanalysis, whose central notion was that insight cured mental illness. Nevertheless, it was from Freud's psychoanalysis and Wundt's experimental psychology that all later schools and methods of psychology evolved. The split between these two areas of study remains firmly in place to this day. Psychology's experimental wing is surely scientific, even by the rigid standards of the academically compulsive. The tools of traditional science have been enormously useful in finding out more about mind and behavior.
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This kind of logic works well in the physical world, the quantum realm of the super-small excepted, but not so well with the complexities of personality, motivation, relationship. Because the psyche operates in accord with its own laws, and these are not necessarily similar to the physical laws studied by physical scientists. Let's say you lead a boring life and hate your job. To escape from daily frustration, you immerse yourself in distractions like television, shopping, and surfing the Internet. Then you dream one night that you are window-shopping and suddenly discover a mannequin with a face just like yours.