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> Why are there so many psychologists practicing psychoanalysis today, then? There aren't. Psychology (in the US) abandoned Freud roughly in the 50s and 60s, w
by 462436347 3y ago
> Why are there so many psychologists practicing psychoanalysis today, then?
There aren't. Psychology (in the US) abandoned Freud roughly in the 50s and 60s, with the rise of Behaviorism and later Cognitive psychology. These movements tried to make psychology an empirical science, with testable hypotheses subjected to replicable experiments. (Obviously, given the replication crisis, this effort hasn't been completely successful.) Psychiatry (the medical specialization) took much longer, until the 80s, but eventually they dispensed with his nonsense as well.
Most talk therapy today entails some form of CBT, REBT, ACT, or something similar, and these have nothing to do with Freud.
- EGreg 3y agoI mean, you could also say B F Skinner was a charlatan for behaviorism, and so on. Very reductionist to say that though! And you can say B J Fogg is a more modern charlatan. And Robert Cialdini. But all of them put together very interesting theories!
- 462436347 3y ago> Skinner was a charlatan for behaviorism Being wrong doesn't make you a charlatan. Skinner, to his credit, tried to operate scientifically, by formulating empirically falsifiable hypotheses and testing them. Freud, by contrast, crafted reams of "theory" that his followers were expected to unquestioningly accept as gospel.
- naniwaduni 3y agoBeing wrong doesn't make Freud a charlatan either. It makes him a crackpot and a crack, but that's not the same thing.
- bowsamic 3y agoThis is only true in the US. Even in the UK it isn’t uncommon. In Germany it is very common