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Freudian vocational guidance

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The concept of vocational guidance seems so old-fashioned these days. Was it ever taken very seriously, even in the past? Many can remember a rather ineffectual schoolteacher who took pupils through some opaque test or simple-minded interview, narrowing their choices/preferences to something speedily suited to their abilities, temperament, and interests.

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Furnham, A. (2005). Freudian vocational guidance. In: The People Business. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510098_25

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