Pretty much. It’s built on unverifiable claims, even Freud’s own case studies ended wrecks, and it!s used today to support shit “diagnoses” like “this kid is autistic because his mother loved him too much”. And there’s all the bullshit coming from the forced proximity with the analyst, like false memories. It is, in many ways, a pseudoscience.
As for what can be determined through actual science, there were huge cross-studies that could not find any benefit to psychoanalytic therapy for treatment of most psychological problems.
Psychoanalysis is not an equivalent term to psychology. It’s only a branch of it, one that shits on experimentation and proof because all the proof you need are in the ravings of an old weirdo from a century ago.
They cover Freud in psychiatry like you cover Satie in music, Picasso in art and Brecht in writing classes. That doesn’t mean that the latest TV shows like Heated Rivalry are cubist versions of Mother Courage set to Gymnopedes. And how much Freud have you actually read and studied at a postgraduate level? Why do you mentioned Freud and not Lacan?
Nowhere near as real as doctors genuinely believing pseudoscientific bullshit and having it thrive way past the point of disproven efficiency.
Looking at you, homeopathy and psychoanalysis.
Wait, are we really putting psychoanalysis on the same bucket as homeopathy now?
Pretty much. It’s built on unverifiable claims, even Freud’s own case studies ended wrecks, and it!s used today to support shit “diagnoses” like “this kid is autistic because his mother loved him too much”. And there’s all the bullshit coming from the forced proximity with the analyst, like false memories. It is, in many ways, a pseudoscience.
As for what can be determined through actual science, there were huge cross-studies that could not find any benefit to psychoanalytic therapy for treatment of most psychological problems.
Psychoanalysis is not an equivalent term to psychology. It’s only a branch of it, one that shits on experimentation and proof because all the proof you need are in the ravings of an old weirdo from a century ago.
They cover Freud in psychiatry like you cover Satie in music, Picasso in art and Brecht in writing classes. That doesn’t mean that the latest TV shows like Heated Rivalry are cubist versions of Mother Courage set to Gymnopedes. And how much Freud have you actually read and studied at a postgraduate level? Why do you mentioned Freud and not Lacan?
Politely, I think your opinion is under-informed.
They also teach obsolete models of the atom in science so students understand where we’re coming from, but they don’t still use them.