Freud’s impact on 20th century thought is undeniable, but he got almost everything wrong. He was not only not scientific; he was a liar and a fraud.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/freud-was-a-fraud-a-triumph-of-pseudoscience/
I think this heavy criticism around psychonalysis is completely well grounded. Psychonalysis have been written some cool stuff about sexuality and even the behavior around some mental illness, but it is completely non-scientific and seems to neglet all the modern medicine resources.
Nowdays we have a lot of ways to “measure” our brains and discover what physically and chemically is happening inside it. We have a constantly growing neurology study field. We have a constantly growing pharma research around brain chemical behavior. We have systematic approachs like behaviorism and others, to understanding the behavior of humans and other animals. So why we keep attached to ideas and methodologies from 1930s ?
All the other study fields are wrong about the “method”, let’s keep up with our brand new and modern abilities from 1930 🥴
psychoanalytic case reports should be excluded because they are in no way scientific.
Unfortunately, the modern revisions of psychoanalysis do not offer a coherent response to critics. It is difficult to see how any of the current responses to criticism can save psychoanalysis from a continued and lingering decline. Analysis has separated itself from psychiatry and psychology by teaching its method in stand-alone institutes. The field may only survive if it is prepared to dismantle its structure as a separate discipline and rejoin academia and clinical science.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5459228/
