There is a push for both evidenced-based and empirically-based treatments (slightly different meanings) due to mainly economic pressures and so therapies that are easier to quantify and measure statistically have been pushed forward.
That does not mean that they are in fact better or eliminate other treatments, such as psychoanalysis. In fact, there are studies that show that the actual method chosen has a rather small effect compared to other factors such as what the client brings in, placebo effects, and the relationship.
As for psychoanalysis, it is no longer a single thing or dependent on Freud. There is a body of evidence for its effectiveness. And there are also studies that show the indebtedness of other therapies to what were originally psychoanalytic ideas.
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