(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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er, not nocebo, I forget the name for placebo but the drug has an effect noticeable to patient, just unrelated to what it's supposed to do
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A lot may also be related to practioner skill. One of my best friends is a psych, specializing in depression, gets good results, says more shrinks and almost all GPs mis-prescribe.
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Pretty much everything in psych is like that. Practitioners have worse professional training than e.g. doctors, and doctors fuck up all. the. time.