RE: What did Freud get right?
August 25, 2021 at 5:21 pm
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2021 at 5:27 pm by vulcanlogician.)
(August 25, 2021 at 3:44 pm)brewer Wrote: The effect of the unconscious mind.
The existence of defense mechanisms.
The fear/resistance of change.
The idea of transference.
Talk therapy.
Cocaine.
Was he right about cocaine? Absolutely.
But what about talk therapy? Maybe. Studies have indicated that talk therapy's influence on recovery from mental illness may be negligible. As one of my psych profs explained to me, most of the data supporting talk therapy is based on what recovered individuals name as the cause of recovery. Meaning, people who have had talk therapy generally think IT was an instrumental factor in their recovery. But studies that focus on results only find the influence of talk therapy negligible.
