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infiniteobedience: dyannehs: 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 Remember, this is the guy whose approach to anthropology can be summed up as “Civilization exists because women don’t pee on fires.” “If you display the psychosexual stages, then my theory is right. If you don’t then you’re repressing it and I’m still right.” -basically what Freud believed about his theory I went to a Freudian therapist once and I was like… “seriously dude, my mother was amazing… she isn’t the reason for every. single. one. of. my. issues.” It was truly terrible. In the end I basically told him that this was eye-opening and I’ll never do this again. Thanks for this post! -- source link