Initially, Freud argued that psychological disorders were the product of early sexual abuse. Later he said they were the product of fantasies of early sexual abuse. What evidence did he have for these theories?

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Freud did not have any empirical evidence for either of these theories. Instead, they were his inferences or guesses based on his interpretations of his patients' dreams and other experiences in therapy. Later, many of his patients recanted their reports of sexual abuse, leading Freud to revise his theory to propose that these reports were actually repressed fantasies rather than actual experiences.

Initially, Freud Argued That Psychological Disorders Were the Product of Early