Many of these forests thrive around Africaâs other great rivers, the Zambezi, the Congo, and the Niger. However, trees are being cut down in Africaâs rain forests for many of the same reasons deforestation is taking place in the rain forests of South America and Asia: development for businesses, homes, and agriculture.
Psychoanalysis remains influential within psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy, and across the humanities. As such, it continues to generate extensive and highly contested debate with regard to its therapeutic efficacy, its scientific status, and whether it advances or is detrimental to the feminist cause.
This is a crucially important issue since Freud saw himself first and foremost as a pioneering scientist, and repeatedly asserted that the significance of psychoanalysis is that it is a new science, incorporating a new scientific method of dealing with the mind and with mental illness.