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Psychoanalytic theory has been both acclaimed for its effectiveness and highly criticized for its limitations. Traditional psychoanalysis used structural, developmental, and motivational constructs to describe the complexity of human personality functioning. Many theorists and practitioners focus their criticisms on the lack of specific attention to the present and future and, in particular, on the lack of attention to cross-cultural applications and the potential for bias toward specific client populations. Others favor the theory because of the dynamic foundation of development and structural components used to explain personality development and its contemporary applications to present maladaptive functioning (Petrocelli et al., 2001).