No, of course not. Though talk therapy, as a method, is intricately linked with Freud's theories, so anyone employing talk therapy is by definition sustained by

No, of course not. Though talk therapy, as a method, is intricately linked with Freud's theories, so anyone employing talk therapy is by definition sustained by his theories. But when people don't read Freud, they can believe whatever they want about him. (And sure, there is psych research which has nothing to do with therapeutic methods, but why is that considered important? That's like a mathematician saying they're a physicist just because physicists use math!)