I think that in future, people turning to the past, will see our time as an era of unbelief, associated primarily with Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud.
Friedrich August Hayek, a Nobel laureate in economics
Now they begin to understand that the doctrine of psychoanalysis is the biggest swindle of intellectual consciousness in the 20th century.
P.B. Midvar, Nobel laureate in medicine
During the development of existentialism, the psychoanalysis as a method proved controversial and was regarded as dubious in scientific terms, and very dubious as therapy. All serious researches uncovered the fraud in Freudian theory. Indeed, Freud’s theory, which no scientific research has confirmed, it rests only on the faith of his followers.
At the bottom of this fraud find even Freud’s behavior: his attitude to the problem being analyzed had no obligations. He disguised himself as the interpreter, not a scientist. “In fact, I’m not a scientist, not the one who watches, who conducts experiments or whoever thinks. By his temperament, I am nothing but a conquistador, an adventurer, driven by curiosity, boldness and perseverance inherent in this kind of person”
Moreover, Freud castigated rigorous scientific approach: “These critics, who conclude their experiments in the framework of methodological approaches, remind me of people who are constantly wiping their glasses instead of wearing them and watch them.” E. Fuller Torrey, recalls that one psychologist, wrote to Freud to inform him that he found a scientific basis for his theory, and Freud told him that his theory does not need any recognition. Freud argued against a statistical comparison between groups of patients – a key element of establishing the reliability of data in modern medicine. Freud believed that every patient is unique, and therefore statistical studies give incorrect results. He preferred to follow from case to case, considering that the success of treatment is in itself enough to show the correctness of his theory. This is not true at least for two reasons: the first is called the placebo effect. Patients who are treated with a placebo, often feels better, even if it is a purely physical parameters, or mechanical, such as blood pressure, high blood pressure or blood glucose for diabetics. This improvement is attributed in part to therapist’s attention to the patient, who feels that care and calms down. Obviously, if the placebo effect is good for the physical aspects of the body, it can be of great importance in mental pathologies. It happens that a tested drug has no such effect as the placebo, showing that the drug is ineffective in the disease, it is trying to cure.
The second reason is that mental disorders are very cyclical, therefore, prone to recessions, improvements and new permanent busts. When a psychiatrist diagnoses a patient, he often is in the worst condition. Then the natural course of the disease leads to improvement, which the therapist relates to its analysis. One can only ask themselves how Freudian theory was able to convince? Above all, this can be attributed to lie to the author, who did everything to hide the inferiority of the psychoanalytic approach. We consider here two cases, before we consider the case with “Little Hans” from the chapter on the Oedipus complex, and the case of Dora.
One of the most famous and brilliant recoveries, as the author points out, there was the “man with the wolves”, so named because his neurosis began with a dream in which he saw the white wolves. Freud hastened to conclude that these white wolves symbolize underwear of patient’s mother and father. This patient was later interviewed by a psychologist and an Austrian journalist who found that attacks have continued after 60 years Freud found him recovered.
Another famous case is about Anna O. This young girl suffered from neurotic disorders from the day she sat at the head of her father, aching of tuberculosis, a disease that should soon carry him off. Freud diagnosed with “neurosis” and assured that cured her. Jung, who knew very well what happens in reality, was the first who exposed this lie, and expressed utter contempt for Freud. G. F. Ellenberger in the book “The discovery of the unconscious, and Thornton, in his book” Freud and cocaine “clearly showed how Freud falsified the truth and cleverly deceived customers. As for neurosis, then the young girl contracted tuberculosis from her father.
Thus K. Eyzenk generalizes the cases of Freudian theory: “While it is insufficient to prove the theory, these cases can illustrate the application of the method of treatment. But when the author deliberately deceives the reader on key factors, then how can we take seriously these cases and the more believe them? “ And Freud’s theory speaks only about eight cases, of which only six were analyzed directly by Freud. Freud’s position was dogmatic. He refused to do a serious comparative analysis of both research and their speculations. Young recalls a conversation with Freud: “My dear Jung, promise me never to leave the sexual theory. This is the most important thing! You see, we must make a dogma out of it, a staunch bastion.”
Followers of Freud behaved the same way. Just a few studies were published to prove the theory of Freud. Klein argues that Freudian theory rests on a completely disparate criteria of scientific methodology of the facts. G. Eyzenk and Dzh.Vilson added that they could not find in these works, no study of which we could say: “is confirmation of a particular case of Freudian theory.” They add that “none of these studies does not allow to reject any other interpretation, none have been conducted with the corresponding experimental data and is not supported by statistical data with the selection of patients to be promulgated. “
In favor of the inefficiency of the psychoanalytic treatment is that in his great reform of the health Clinton’s administration did not provide damages in cases of psychoanalysis, since, according to his own words Dr. F. Goodwin, president of the American National Institute of Mental Health, “this can not be paid. This can not be recovered because there is no proof that it works. “
American Association for the Advancement of Science made a request to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the conclusion about the Freudian psychoanalysis, which was made by F.Dzh.Salloveem and his team. Their findings as presented by the P.A. Wilds Ritzen are very instructive: “Psychoanalysis has arisen as a result of outdated erroneous biological hypotheses that prompted Freud to erect its building on sand. This theory was killed in the bud. Inclinical terms, methodological gaps are evident. The cultural and social impact of psychoanalysis was intrusive, by the almost religious faith of his followers. Cases in which Freud developed his own system, based largely on false and erroneous observations in favor of his interpretation. In fact, there was no cures. “
Thus, the doctrine of Freud is not built on a scientific basis, but, according to Freud himself, on the “bastion of unshakable dogma”, which was for him the sexual theory. Freud’s theory becomes a religion. And all those who dared to question or challenge these dogmas, were despised, were condemned as not aware, rejected the name of science and truth.
Dogma is not only veils the doubt, but it expresse the desire of power. Here is how religion has always been laid in the thinking of Freud. He himself had always identified himself with Moses, and went further by creating his own myth in Totem and Taboo. Jung, however, confirms this: “I was not yet aware, but I have noticed Freud’s unconscious manifestations of religious factors of behavior.”
Freud’s followers took to be apostles of the new religion: “The atmosphere in the room looked like the creation of the new religion. Freud himself was its new prophet. His followers, were inspired and convinced, they became its apostles.” Freud as the head of the church excommunicated Adler. He separated him from the official church. “For several years I have lived through the history of the church making.” ”Some of us were convinced that psychoanalysis will change the motion of the earth, and that the victorious era in which we live, will replace the Golden Age, in which a neurosis will be eliminated forever. We felt like great people.”
Freudian ideology would have a devastating effect on Western consciousness, which undergoes a metaphysical regress, as well as moral and social decline, the bitter fruits of which it will be a long time to collect,the main is thin reason for this regression is in denial of the principle of holiness, the foundation and the culmination of which is the mother.
