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hotdogcephalopod:
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This is important to remember.
While Freud played a crucial role in the development of modern psychology and therapy, his theories were all untestable at best and rampagingly sexist at worst. He had absolutely no empirical data and his theories, while very thought out, are complete bullshit.
It is good to learn about him and his theories to have a basis for understanding modern psychology, but under no circumstances should his work be applied to anything beyond a historical and academic perspective.
I am so thankful for this post
Like, his Electra theory was based on the idea that all the women telling him they were raped by their dad’s were lying are really talking about sexual fantasies, as opposed to, y'know, actually being raped.
hotdogcephalopod:
ignotum-per-aeque-ignotum:
did-you-kno:
Source
This is important to remember.
While Freud played a crucial role in the development of modern psychology and therapy, his theories were all untestable at best and rampagingly sexist at worst. He had absolutely no empirical data and his theories, while very thought out, are complete bullshit.
It is good to learn about him and his theories to have a basis for understanding modern psychology, but under no circumstances should his work be applied to anything beyond a historical and academic perspective.
I am so thankful for this post
Like, his Electra theory was based on the idea that all the women telling him they were raped by their dad’s were lying are really talking about sexual fantasies, as opposed to, y'know, actually being raped.
