Posted by boBB on May 26, 2000, at 16:59:58
In reply to Re: What do you guys think of Freud?-, posted by SLS on May 26, 2000, at 15:56:32
IMHO, Freud’s main contribution was the recognition that behaviors learned during early childhood are the most durable. His assessment of what behaviors could be learned as rather limited, but his general findings seem to have been confirmed in principle by more recent studies of childhood development.
More recent psychoanalytic methods expanded and loosened up from Freuds determinism. I think most clinics feel psychoanalysis takes to long, but for an individual to develop and catalog their own understanding of their childhood influences seems to be a useful way of getting to know oneself.
This seems to be a approach most useful when it is liberated from the experts and used by the proletariat.
The antithesis of Freudian thought seems to be humanism, which focuses on an individual’s infinate ability to direct their own life.
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