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Freudian psychoanalysis is absolutely not widely accepted. “Therapy” is a different thing altogether; essentially an American misinterpretation of the practice.
by nopenopenopeno 5y ago
Freudian psychoanalysis is absolutely not widely accepted. “Therapy” is a different thing altogether; essentially an American misinterpretation of the practice. And it’s popular because it’s profitable because it’s efficient. It legitimates various medical and pseudo-medical so-called expert institutions and displaces attention to the less desired byproducts of modern capitalism. Freud’s work, on the other hand, was extremely inefficient in comparison and rather served to expose and develop awareness of neurosis rather than to medicate.
- jhoelzel 5y agoi get what you are trying to say but its the old quantitative vs qualitative research discussion again and while I accept your opinion in the manner and the way you vaulue it, the reasoning is flawed from my perspective. Psychoanalysis is only the tip of the freudian journey and i was not trying to say that everything he did on a cocain run was perfect or even valid. What i was trying to say is that the scientific process for this has evolved and in reality what diffencietes science from pseudo science is methodology. Psychology is literally the method of the psyche (translated). Even this mythbusters says: the difference between science and screwing around is to write it all down ;)