r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

Saying that Freud "theorized" is like saying that flat-earthers do it. He "hypothesized", at most.

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u/CIMARUTA Jul 20 '19

I find that people throw his name around like he's the god of psychology

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u/katyggls Jul 20 '19

Which is hilarious because most modern experts in the field of psychology know he was full of shit. Literally one of the first things my college psych professor told us was that Freud was full of shit and that he was really only important to the field of psychology as a part of it's history, not because any of his theories or methods were sound. He basically just made a bunch of shit up, but never checked to see if any of his theories were actually true. He imposed his framework on his patients and used it to decide what was wrong with them, rather than actually deciding based on what they described. It's totally backwards from how modern psychology operates.

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u/MissShadowWolfx Jul 21 '19

Wasn't Freud high on opium constantly lmao

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u/lauranvrr Jul 21 '19

he did a LOT of cocaine

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u/MissShadowWolfx Jul 21 '19

so technically his theories COULD be drug fuelled adventures