I'm not a psychologist myself, and I know nothing about modern academic psychoanalysis. I've tried to read some but it was indecipherable to me. Modern clinica

I'm not a psychologist myself, and I know nothing about modern academic psychoanalysis. I've tried to read some but it was indecipherable to me. Modern clinical psychoanalysis is a strange field. It went out of vogue with the advent of behavioral and later cognitive psychology in the latter half of the 20th century, as well as psychiatry. Psychoanalysts tend to believe their way is the only way, while more modern psychologists are much more eclectic. They're often extremely critical of the use of medication even in cases where the evidence supporting their use is overwhelming, like stimulants for ADHD. Psychoanalysts have their own strange nomenclature that's often incompatible with modern developments. So it's hard for other psychologists to even talk to them at all. Those are some of the reasons psychoanalysis is viewed as pseudoscientific by modern clinical psychologists.