The principle that we relate to others as though they were significant others from our past (& that individual differences exist in the extent to which we do & when) is perhaps among the most important research supported contributions #psychoanalysis. Extant research in social… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The principle that mental processes occur outside of awareness, I.e., unconsciously, implicitly, and automagically, has found a plethora of scientific support in cognitive psychology. Debate exists as to whether this evidence constitutes support for psychoanalytic theory.
However, any fair minded reading of the research literature and relevant theoretical conceptions would see that a large body of empirical evidence validates the existence of unconscious processing in line with psychodynamic theory.
Emotion stroop, lexical decision, and semantic priming tasks all point to the existence of implicit affective processing, motivation, and learning for instance.
Defense mechanisms - their existence, classification, effects, and role in understanding psychopathology and personality - has also long received empirical support, culminating in the DSM-IV including a Defense Mechanism Rating guide but largely due to work on a self report-DSQ
Psychoanalytic theories of development are probably under appreciated for how much they are taken for granted as being empirically supported albeit labeled differently, stripped of its psychoanalytic etymology. The same can be said re personality & psychoanalytic ego psychology.
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