Provide reason(s) why Freud's principles of psychoanalytic theory have been called into question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer: 1) Lack of validation by subsequent research, in particular, the idea that people pass through stages in childhood that determine adult personality; 2) Freud's theory was based on a limited population of upper-middle-class Austrians living in a strict, puritanical era, and the application of Freud's theory to a broad, multicultural population is questionable; 3) Freud's theory focuses primarily on male development, has been criticized as sexist, and may be interpreted as devaluing women.