I am always interested by the strength of anti-freudian feeling sometimes elicited
when his name is mentioned in these pages - though not
in this thread I hasten to add. And I feel personally that it is essential to cover
Freud in basic psychology courses because of
historical importance of the theory and it's offspring. However I just wanted to tell
two brief stories.
Dr Professor Anthony Claire was for a time the best known media psychiatrist in
Britain and was a main contributer to a radio documentary
about Freud celebrating some anniversary or other in the 1990s (I think). Asked what
he thought the main contribution of Freud has been
to pychiatry he replied - as a definite non-freudian - "He made us listen to our
patients." Dr Claire's radio series "In the
Psychiatrist's Chair" was excellent.
Another psychiatrist - also in the UK - (a colleague of my father's and this anecdote
comes from him second hand) was asked if he was a
Freudian etc - this would have been in the 1960s - and replied to the effect that "it
depends on the patient: if he needs me to be
Freudian I'm Freudian, if Jungian then Jungian ... etc."
You've no idea how close I came to sending out "Yungian", but I didn't.
David
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