The medical model criticisms - The medical model reduces the chances of effective treatment as it only treats the symptoms medically and doesn’t deal with the underlying cause. Equally, treating people as if there is a medical explanation can actually make the individual worse as it takes away any responsibility for their own behaviour and places the responsibility for a ‘cure’ on the medical personnel. Psychoanalysis criticisms - Critics point out that there is simply no objective evidence to support theory that abnormal behaviour is caused by unconscious conflicts (largely to do with repressed sexual desires). This treatment can also be very time consuming and expensive. The behaviourists, humanists and cognitive therapists all criticise