Posted by Adam on February 17, 2000, at 20:12:59
In reply to Re: Freud and his relevance, posted by Noa on February 16, 2000, at 17:22:30
Freud had his day. He made some brilliant deductions (such as the existance of the subconcious), and thus some important contributions, but the state of the art and the science has moved on.
Some of Freud's observations and constructions may hold up to scientific scruitiny. Some may and have not. Frued himself was not a scientist, but, at best, an intuitive creator and philosopher. He should be honored as such and put to rest.
I think the psychotherapy of the future will be multimodal and will adapt itself temporally to the needs of the patient, and will almost certainly not be separated but rather integrated in an adaptive way to the course of psychopharmacological interventions. It may progress in phases from a cognitive-behavioral approach to help modify maladaptive behaviors and patterns of thinking, to an interpersonal phase of confidence building and relationship skills, to a more reflective, psychoanalytic phase where, if desired, issues of symbol and meaning and subconcious impetus can be pondered. Particular details will be fitted to the patient based on a hopefully robust system of identification of well-characterised schemas that the patient displays. The particulars will be informed by rigorous study and research into human behavior as influenced both by environment and genotype.
The key will be knowing what to throw at what phenotype and when. This will be determined by scientific research, not intuition. Thus, Freud has no place in such a scheme. If he is proven right on occasion, it will be coincidence. We can then marvel at his genius if such praise is warranted, the way we marvel at at Democritus, whose concept of the atom may seem as quaint but inspired to modern physicists as the id will seem to the future healers of the mind.
> > , Do you ever hear Americans apologizing for their poor French, because they are Americans?
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> No, but Americans use the expression, "Pardon my French" when using spicy language! :')
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