Why might a young therapist in a clinic accepting Medicaid patients and serving an inner city, predominantly black community have a problem implementing psychoanalytic theory?

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The main reason why a young psychologist in a predominantly black inner city community would have a problem implementing psychoanalytic theory is that the theory's basic principles were derived from research conducted on a non-representative sample in a study that took place back in the nineteenth century. Conclusions drawn on a sample consisting almost exclusively of upper class white Austrian women might be heavily biased and not inferable to the very different population being served by the young Afro-American psychologist at the inner-city clinic.

Why Might a Young Therapist in a Clinic Accepting Medicaid