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Sigmund Freud
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Altfish
Veteran Member
Freud should be called the father of Western psychiatry. The East has had concepts for quite some from from Buddhist to Hindu. Mind and consciousness in yoga – Vedanta: A comparative analysis with western psychological concepts is an East-West comparison article.
One of the revolutionary, lasting ideas that Freud introduced and formalized was that children's brains work differently than adult brains. And that failures to develop properly during certain stages of one's childhood can create long term problems into adulthood. Prior to his time, there wasn't a nuanced understanding of the fact that children actually think/process information differently than adults.
Now, pretty much everyone today agrees that he was wrong 10 ways from Sunday on the specifics of how all that actually works. But the bedrock idea we can in large part thank him for.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
About the only thing Freud had right is the idea of a subconscious mind. Everything else has went the way of bad humors and spontaneous generation.
Because he had some interesting ideas about motherhood?
Boom-tish
In seriousness, I'd concur with @Left Coast on this one.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
I heard he smoked cigars and played with cocaine
Thief
Rogue Theologian
I did read of a case he studied...
someone speaking a language they did not know
in sudden fits of emotion
some people thought the patient was .....possessed
after examination ....it was determined....
stories were read to the person as a small child in a foreign language
as if to give the child an audio lesson
a trauma followed
then occasions of recital
translation was apparently the clue
someone speaking a language they did not know
in sudden fits of emotion
some people thought the patient was .....possessed
after examination ....it was determined....
stories were read to the person as a small child in a foreign language
as if to give the child an audio lesson
a trauma followed
then occasions of recital
translation was apparently the clue
Why the father? Dont know, there were others before him. But i do see him as the father of psychoanalysis.
What did he do? Quite a few things, his id, ego and superego idea now help to guide neuroscience
Conscious/unconscious shows how everyday tasks can be automatic and repressed unconscious memories can influence behaviour
Was he good or bad? I think a bit of both, he certainly has plenty to answer for, but some of his ideas make our lives better
ronki23
Well-Known Member
I prefer asking on forums instead of Wikipedia as there's less 'clutter' and I want to know opinions on if he was good or bad
Altfish
Veteran Member
It still answered 2 out of 3 of your questions. The third is up for debate