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. . .  psychoanalysis is enough to suggest that it is indeed a pseudoscience. The fact that there are so many of these pockets of pseudoscience suggests that the entire discipline, so far as I have surveyed is pseudoscientific through and through. This, of course, prompts the question: “So what?” Psychoanalysis being pseudoscience entails several things. For one, it is hence no likely better than a therapeutic placebo as a curative treatment. This conclusion is agreement with the opinions of psychoanalysts themselves, as pointed out in Thorton 1988. Hence why would anyone want to bother seeing a psychoanalyst, as . . .
. . .  psychoanalysis Page 1 Psychoanalysis and Pseudoscience Introduction As is well known, the scientific status of psychoanalysis is heavily disputed. In this paper I will defend the notion that psychoanalysis is in fact a pseudoscience for various reasons. To this end, I will first explain why it does not matter whether or not psychoanalysis is claimed to be . . .
. . .  survey. The idea behind repression was Freud’s conjecture that there is no such thing as forgetting (or alternatively, that we don’t forget as much as was thought, and “block out” memories to a great extent.) Fortunately, memory studies have progressed since Freud’s idea came on the scene, and it is now well known that it is false. Further, and perhaps more horrifyingly, the so-called repressed memory therapists are in effect Page 14 creating the memories in their clients. Also, fortunately, due to the Page 15 creation of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation and the intervention of conventional psychologists, . . .
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