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Psychotherapy and Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud appreciated the many ways in which our minds are troubled and anxious. He invented psychoanalysis as a tool to help us uncover what is troubling us and make adjustments to our everyday lives. Here's how it works...

According to Freud, we are governed by our struggle to balance the pleasure principle and the reality principle. Which of these is an example of this struggle?

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