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Freud Is Widely Taught at Universities, Except in the Psychology Department

Seeded on Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:42 AM EST
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If you want to learn about psychoanalysis at the nation's top universities, one of the last places to look may be the psychology department.

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This is so true. And although the article does not mention some of the greats in psychoanalyis, Jung, Horney, etc., it is true for them as well.

    Reply#1 - Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:42 AM EST
    Ryan.

    I'm a third year psych student in Canada, and I can say this is not true, also in regards to numerous other psych students I've talked to across Canada.

    Of course, this little 'survey' they did was done by the psychoanalytic society, and they've never been the best at anything empirical...

    Freud has come up in some way in almost every psychology class I've taken.
    It's taught as a theory, from which a lot of thought has came from, but not as one to accept, because, well, it's wrong.

    The article contends that psychoanalysis talks of things that 'can't be measured'.
    Is he trying to say stages of Psychosocial development can't be measured?
    They definitely can, and its been repeatedly proven that they hold no ground.
    They are nervous about loosing ground, as they have, and for good reason.

    Empirically based cognitive-behavioral therapy has been consistently shown
    to outperform psycho-analysis, and in fact, psycho analysis has sometimes been shown to be harmful to patients.

    "The effort includes this new study, a computer-based analysis of course descriptions at 150 public and private institutions that are highly ranked in U.S. News and World Report's college survey."
    As it says a few lines down..this is inherently flawed.

    There are no courses which tend to mention in their descriptions 'psycho-analysis'
    This tends to be because it is taught along side numerous other theories and techniques.
    Its flawed information, typical of their mindset.
    Maybe they're just uncomfortable with others ideas being taught along side theirs (Freud after all
    was always vehemently opposed to others viewpoints, kicking Jung out of his psychoanalytic society after he tentitvly suggested that maybe not everyone wanted to have sex with their mothers and people occasionally cared about each other just for the sake of caring)

      #1.1 - Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:48 AM EST
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      Bill Harrison

      Freud was far more interesting as a philosopher and cultural critic than he was as a psychologist so there's no surprise here. He always hoped, however, that at some point scientific underpinnings would be added to some of his general principles.

        Reply#2 - Tue Nov 27, 2007 12:48 PM EST
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