I'm a little unclear on the point here. You're expected to use
double-blind test in social scientific research.
Well, okay. I guess so. But Freud was not really involved in such a thing. His output consisted of two main areas. One, very broad theorizing about the nature of man and woman like "Moses and Monotheism". Two, some dicey notions of how to treat patients. The first area doesn't lend itself to double-blind tests, does it?
And Crews also
attacks Freud's theraputic practice, but acknowledges that's
different from attacking his purportedly scientific theory. F didn't
claim to be just a physician with a novel therapeutic approach. He
claimed to have made scientific discoveries about the nature and
structure of the mind.
So did Wilhelm Reich.
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