Posted by Cam W. on February 18, 2000, at 23:10:12
In reply to Re: Freud and his relevance, posted by Eric on February 18, 2000, at 16:45:58
> > Do any of you feel Freud's theory of psychoanalysis is still relevant today? We have come so far in scientifically analyzing mental disorders, but does that negate his life's work?
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> > interested for your input...
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> > Jeb
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> Freud was just a quack and a weirdo who should be shoved under the rug and forgotten about. I hate to say it but many of psychiatry's current problems and overall bad reputation can be indirectly traced back to Freud and his whole mentality and approach. Freud's approach was extremely subjective and unscientific...totally unacceptable in any other branch of medicine. I am sure if Freud were to practice psychiatry today with his ideas he would be hit with so many medical malpractice lawsuits it would be ridiculous.
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> We live in a society in which biotechnology(genetic research and engineering) is in the beginning stages. It is time to forget about Freud and psychiatry's past ties to psychology and reliance on ineffective, open ended talk therapy and move on to more of a neuropsychiatric and genetic engineering approach to severe mental illness. Talk therapy and psychoanalysis are weak tools to combat severe mental illness. Much stronger and more effective treatments are desperately needed and this most surely cannot be found in Freudian psychoanalytical mumbo jumbo studies.
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> It is time to cut ties to psychology and Freud and move psychiatry forward into the era of hard science research.To All -
Have any of you read at least some of Freud's book? I did a few years ago. What struck me was that he seemed to be speaking in metaphor about physical and emotion states, to which there were no words available to describe what he was seeing (or understanding). People seemed to have taken these metaphors literally. The cocaine that Freud was habitually using may have make him paranoid or apathetic about the responses his books elicited. Most of the criticisms we hear today were formulated after his death. Freudian metaphor was not to understood in the literal context, but as a metaphorical explanation of the unknown. - Cam W.
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