Carbohydrate: the Ultimate Hunter 113 tens of thousands of practitioners in all the countries around the world. They each have much to offer and are better suited to different kinds of problems. For example, CBT is excellent for anxiety disorders while Psychodynamic Therapy is excellent for relationship problems. Under these two umbrellas are dozens, if not hundreds, of other‘ subschools’ and variants that the consumer will come across.( Many of the sub-schools will claim to be completely original and, while some might be, usually the proponents are not educated in the parent schools, or their egos prevent them from admitting that they were not the first to think of how the human mind works.) Freud was dismissed from mainstream thinking for three reasons. First, he saw the‘ libidinal drive’, the desire for sex, as the ultimate force( would have made Star Wars more interesting!) that drives humans. While he did explain that this force could be transformed into other desires – the desire for power, for example – his focus on sex was seen as too limited and gained him a lot of misguided publicity around seeing sex and penises everywhere. He was accused of being sexually repressed and very probably was, living as he did in Vienna in the late 19th century. The second reason, and probably the more important, was that Freudian Theory, like the unconscious mind it described, was rather complicated. It also appeared rather contradictory. So a child who grew up unloved could become either an adult that was overly dependent and would not leave an unhealthy relationship or an aloof loner who would not get into one.( Refinements in Psychodynamic Theory later allowed these differences to be explained.) Like surgery on the brain, how to do psychotherapy on the brain was not readily apparent to outsiders. Mystery is dealt with by most humans very suspiciously and is generally seen, I think it is safe to say, as unpopular. Finally, Freudian Theory threatened the rising dominance of man’ s( sexism intended) scientific, technological and intellectual achievements. Freudian Theory said that the conscious mind was but a naïve, deluded puppet to the unconscious mind. This did not go down well in a world