Freud claimed that schizophrenia was a result of ambivalent mother care, and quite a few other things that he had no reason to claim (if it was science and not

Freud claimed that schizophrenia was a result of ambivalent mother care, and quite a few other things that he had no reason to claim (if it was science and not religion). He was wrong in many ways with no nuance whatsoever, but mostly, there isn't much in common between Freud and science. Which is basically what GP was saying. Freud deserves credit for taking psychology as a field of study mainstream - and the debit for founding it on religious principles which, unfortunately, still dominate quite a bit of it. His net contribution is usually assumed to be positive, but that's not an uncontested conclusion.