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Why Freud Was Wrong

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Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis (1995; second edition 1996; third edition 2005) is a book by Richard Webster, in which the author provides a critique of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, and attempts to develop his own theory of human nature. [1]

78 relations: Adolf Grünbaum, Anna O., Anthony Storr, Bob Johnson (psychiatrist), Bob Woffinden, Booklist, Cambridge University Press, Common good, David Lodge (author), Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire, E. Fuller Torrey, Elaine Showalter, Ernest Jones, Ernst Haeckel, Frank Cioffi, Frank McLynn, Frank Sulloway, Frederick Crews, Freud: A Life for Our Time, George C. Williams (biologist), Gilbert Ryle, Hans Eysenck, Hardcover, Henri Ellenberger, Incest, Isis (journal), Jean-Martin Charcot, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, John Wiley & Sons, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Joseph Breuer, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Judeo-Christian, Library Journal, Louis Breger, Macmillan Publishers, Messiah, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, National Review, Nature (journal), New Scientist, New Statesman, Ontogeny, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Paperback, Paul Ferris (author), Peter Gay, Peter Swales (historian), Phylogenetic tree, ..., Pocket Books, Pseudoscience, Psychoanalysis, Publishers Weekly, Random House, Raymond Tallis, Richard Webster (British author), Sigmund Freud, Sonu Shamdasani, Stuart Sutherland, TES (magazine), The Assault on Truth, The BMJ, The Concept of Mind, The Discovery of the Unconscious, The Foundations of Psychoanalysis, The Freudian Fallacy, The Guardian, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, The Memory Wars, The Myth of Mental Illness, The New York Times Book Review, The Quarterly Review of Biology, The Spectator, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Szasz, Times Higher Education, Wilhelm Fliess. Expand index (28 more) »

Adolf Grünbaum

Adolf Grünbaum (born May 15, 1923) is a philosopher of science and a critic of psychoanalysis, as well as Karl Popper's philosophy of science.

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Anna O.

Anna O. was the pseudonym of a patient of Josef Breuer, who published her case study in his book Studies on Hysteria, written in collaboration with Sigmund Freud.

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Anthony Storr

Anthony Storr (18 May 1920 – 17 March 2001) was an English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author.

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Bob Johnson (psychiatrist)

Dr Bob Johnson is a British psychiatrist and an outspoken opponent of electroconvulsive therapy and psychosurgery in general.

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Bob Woffinden

Bob Woffinden (31 January 1948 – 1 May 2018) was a British investigative journalist.

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Booklist

Booklist is a publication of the American Library Association that provides critical reviews of books and audiovisual materials for all ages.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Common good

In philosophy, economics, and political science, the common good (also commonwealth, common weal or general welfare) refers to either what is shared and beneficial for all or most members of a given community, or alternatively, what is achieved by citizenship, collective action, and active participation in the realm of politics and public service.

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David Lodge (author)

David John Lodge CBE (born 28 January 1935) is an English author and literary critic.

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Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire

Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire (1985; second edition 2004) is a book by the psychologist Hans Eysenck, in which the author criticizes Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, which he argues is unscientific.

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E. Fuller Torrey

Edwin Fuller Torrey (born September 6, 1937), is an American psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher.

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Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues.

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Ernest Jones

Alfred Ernest Jones (1 January 1879 – 11 February 1958) was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst.

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Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the influential but no longer widely held recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarises its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.

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Frank Cioffi

Frank Cioffi (11 January 1928 – 1 January 2012) was an American philosopher educated in New York and Oxford.

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Frank McLynn

Francis James McLynn FRHistS FRGS (born 29 August 1941), known as Frank McLynn, is a British author, biographer, historian and journalist.

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Frank Sulloway

Frank Jones Sulloway (born February 2, 1947) is an American psychologist.

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Frederick Crews

Frederick Campbell Crews (born 1933) is an American essayist and literary critic.

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Freud: A Life for Our Time

Freud: A Life for Our Time is a 1988 biography of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, by the historian Peter Gay.

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George C. Williams (biologist)

George Christopher Williams (May 12, 1926 – September 8, 2010) was an American evolutionary biologist.

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Gilbert Ryle

Gilbert Ryle (19 August 1900 – 6 October 1976) was a British philosopher.

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Hans Eysenck

Hans Jürgen Eysenck, PhD, DSc (4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a German-born English psychologist who spent his professional career in Great Britain.

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Hardcover

A hardcover or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of Binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).

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Henri Ellenberger

Henri Frédéric Ellenberger (Nalolo, Barotseland, Rhodesia, 6 November 1905 – Quebec, 1 May 1993) was a Canadian psychiatrist, medical historian, and criminologist, sometimes considered the founding historiographer of psychiatry.

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Incest

Incest is sexual activity between family members or close relatives.

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Isis (journal)

Isis is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Jean-Martin Charcot

Jean-Martin Charcot (29 November 1825 – 16 August 1893) was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology.

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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (born March 28, 1941 as Jeffrey Lloyd Masson) is an American author.

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John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing.

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Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (born 1933 in Edinburgh) is a British author, known for biographies, including one of Alfred Kinsey, and books of social history on the British nanny and public school system.

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Joseph Breuer

Joseph Breuer (March 20, 1882 – April 19, 1980) was a rabbi and community leader in Germany and the United States.

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Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of social and behavioral sciences.

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Judeo-Christian

Judeo-Christian is a term that groups Judaism and Christianity, either in reference to Christianity's derivation from Judaism, both religions common use of the Torah, or due to perceived parallels or commonalities shared values between those two religions, which has contained as part of Western culture.

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Library Journal

Library Journal is an American trade publication for librarians.

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Louis Breger

Louis Breger (born November 20, 1935) is an American psychologist, psychotherapist and scholar.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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Messiah

In Abrahamic religions, the messiah or messias is a saviour or liberator of a group of people.

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Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen

Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen (born 1951), is Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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National Review

National Review (NR) is an American semi-monthly conservative editorial magazine focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.

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New Scientist

New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly, English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.

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Ontogeny

Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origination and development of an organism, usually from the time of fertilization of the egg to the organism's mature form—although the term can be used to refer to the study of the entirety of an organism's lifespan.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Palgrave Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan is an international academic and trade publishing company.

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Paperback

A paperback is a type of book characterized by a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.

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Paul Ferris (author)

Paul Ferris (born 1929) is a British biographer and novelist.

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Peter Gay

Peter Gay (born Peter Joachim Fröhlich; June 20, 1923 – May 12, 2015) was a German-American historian, educator and author.

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Peter Swales (historian)

Peter J. Swales (born 1948) is a Welsh "guerilla historian of psychoanalysis", and former assistant to the Rolling Stones, who has written essays and letters about Sigmund Freud.

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Phylogenetic tree

A phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree is a branching diagram or "tree" showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological species or other entities—their phylogeny—based upon similarities and differences in their physical or genetic characteristics.

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Pocket Books

Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.

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Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that are claimed to be both scientific and factual, but are incompatible with the scientific method.

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Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Raymond Tallis

Raymond C. Tallis (born 10 October 1946) is a philosopher, poet, novelist, cultural critic and a retired medical physician and clinical neuroscientist.

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Richard Webster (British author)

Richard Webster (17 December 1950 – 24 June 2011) was a British author.

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

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Sonu Shamdasani

Sonu Shamdasani (born 1962) is a London-based author, editor, and professor at University College London.

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Stuart Sutherland

(Norman) Stuart Sutherland (26 March 1927 – 8 November 1998) was a British psychologist and writer.

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TES (magazine)

Tes, formerly known as the Times Educational Supplement, is a weekly UK publication aimed primarily at school teachers in the UK.

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The Assault on Truth

The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory is a book by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, in which the author argues that Sigmund Freud deliberately suppressed his early hypothesis, known as the seduction theory, that hysteria is caused by sexual abuse during infancy, because he refused to believe that children are the victims of sexual violence and abuse within their own families.

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The BMJ

The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal.

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The Concept of Mind

The Concept of Mind is a 1949 book by philosopher Gilbert Ryle, in which the author argues that "mind" is "a philosophical illusion hailing chiefly from René Descartes and sustained by logical errors and 'category mistakes' which have become habitual." The work has been cited as having "put the final nail in the coffin of Cartesian dualism" and has been seen as a founding document in the philosophy of mind, which received professional recognition as a distinct and important branch of philosophy only after 1950.

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The Discovery of the Unconscious

The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry is a 1970 book by the Swiss medical historian Henri F. Ellenberger.

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The Foundations of Psychoanalysis

The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique is a 1984 book by the philosopher Adolf Grünbaum, in which the author offers a philosophical critique of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, evaluating the claim that it is a natural science.

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The Freudian Fallacy

The Freudian Fallacy, first published in the United Kingdom as Freud and Cocaine, is a 1983 book about Sigmund Freud by the medical historian Elizabeth M. Thornton, in which the author argues that Freud became a cocaine addict and that his theories resulted from his use of cocaine.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud

The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud is a biography of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones.

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The Memory Wars

The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute is a 1995 book about Sigmund Freud and recovered memory therapy by the critic Frederick Crews, writing with Harold P. Blum, Marcia Cavell, Morris Eagle, Matthew Erdelyi, Allen Esterson, Robert R. Holt, James Hopkins, Lester Luborsky, David D. Olds, Mortimer Ostow, Bernard L. Pacella, Herbert S. Peyser, Charlotte Krause Prozan, Theresa Reid, James L. Rice, Jean Schimek, Marian Tolpin, and a contributor using the pseudonym "Penelope".

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The Myth of Mental Illness

The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct is a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, in which the author criticizes psychiatry and argues against the concept of mental illness.

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The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed.

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The Quarterly Review of Biology

The Quarterly Review of Biology is a peer reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of biology.

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The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, translator, historian, mathematician, and teacher.

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Thomas Szasz

Thomas Stephen Szasz (Szász Tamás István; 15 April 1920 – 8 September 2012) was a Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

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Times Higher Education

Times Higher Education (THE), formerly The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), is a weekly magazine based in London, reporting specifically on news and issues related to higher education.

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Wilhelm Fliess

Wilhelm Fliess (Wilhelm Fließ; 24 October 1858 – 13 October 1928) was a German Jewish otolaryngologist who practised in Berlin.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Freud_Was_Wrong

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