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Psychiatry and psychology rejected Freud as an unscientific laughingstock a long, long time ago. This shouldn't be trotted out as a an example of how these fiel
by nerfhammer 8y ago
Psychiatry and psychology rejected Freud as an unscientific laughingstock a long, long time ago. This shouldn't be trotted out as a an example of how these fields operate today.
They do attempt the scientific method, they just aren't doing a very good job of it much of the time apparently. If you think Freud, psychiatry and psychology are so synonymous that they can be referred to interchangeably, try picking up a current psychology textbook.
- JackCh 8y ago> "Psychiatry and psychology rejected Freud as an unscientific laughingstock a long, long time ago." In my experience few laugh at him. Most respect him, even if they don't believe him.
- nerfhammer 8y agolaughingstock was a not a perfect choice of words. People will still loosely refer to his more well known ideas casually. Some could be said to respect him to some degree, others not. But hardly anyone is confused about exactly how scientific his output was, and neither would any textbook published in the last 40 years.