He may be slightly responsible for ruining his own reputation, in that respect. Guy was an egomaniac who couldn't handle being surpassed by Jung.
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(Nor to bear criticism from anyone else - the worse the criticism of his worst ideas became, the more obtuse he became in sticking to them.)
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All of which is a shame, because I completely agree that he had a lot of good ideas - just not much of a sense of how to preserve their memory.
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However, happy to say this discussion has reminded me that I need to read more about the neo-freudians. Particularly, the hilariously named Karen Horney.
Many of her ideas (e.g. concerning narcissism) have held up remarkably well.
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This is literally all that any therapeutic discipline has achieved. CBT is completely overhyped, for example. Results are... literally placebo.
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Well, when you put in the drug trial results that were witheld it turns out that a lot of drugs are in the nocebo side too.
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Non-drug therapeutic options, too, if you factor in early behaviourism. That was some shitshow.
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No wonder, either. John B. Watson was a complete sadist and essentially a hack.
It says something that the guy was stupid enough to write a tract positing that internal phenomena don't exist.
Presumably he developed it from, y'know, his thoughts.
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