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Well, Freud was big back in the day, and then fell out of favor. And psychoanalytic theory still gets used in media and lit crit (and in writing the shows thems
by Nav_Panel 6y ago
Well, Freud was big back in the day, and then fell out of favor. And psychoanalytic theory still gets used in media and lit crit (and in writing the shows themselves), but... not in what it was built for, therapy.
- greenshackle2 6y agoLast I checked it does about as well as all other types of therapies in studies. What does it say about the theories of mind underlying the different schools of therapy that they all work about equally well?
- Nav_Panel 6y agoAh, "Studies" whose language and inventories are already rooted in particular paradigmatic understandings of psychology. I would expect psychoanalysis to do worse, in the studies, than "regular" psychology! Damning that it doesn't!