tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post4456441161570614960..comments2024-03-24T15:07:18.773+01:00Comments on The Stuttering Brain: Freud: unbelievable nonsenseTom Weidighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084153394215001999noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-34866235337782820752019-11-07T20:16:28.219+01:002019-11-07T20:16:28.219+01:00Comment above: "I think neuroscientists have ...Comment above: "I think neuroscientists have already realized the dorsal striatum in the brain maps the intestinal system.<br />So, Freud could be right on this one."<br /><br />No, it does not. This is incorrect. <br /><br />Thanks Tom<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-84856533581131199772019-09-08T23:16:29.252+02:002019-09-08T23:16:29.252+02:00I don’t want this comment to be viewable I just do...I don’t want this comment to be viewable I just don’t want you to use your spare time and energy to hurt peopleAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12220623552145020933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-43904267041951695632019-09-08T23:15:19.113+02:002019-09-08T23:15:19.113+02:00You’re off topic. And you’re wrong 🤷♂️You’re off topic. And you’re wrong 🤷♂️Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12220623552145020933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-754517183146405112019-09-08T23:13:19.429+02:002019-09-08T23:13:19.429+02:00You have chosen words and a message of evil here. ...You have chosen words and a message of evil here. I don’t like it. If you have the knowledge and energy to put this down then you obviously have gone out of your way to disorient his message for some reason of your own, Not to help people. As a healthy 32 year old man who has stammered his entire childhood and studied it my whole adult life, ican say what Freud writes makes complete sense to me and all of my psychiatrist that I have ever seen. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12220623552145020933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-43610139139121528582019-03-04T20:57:29.400+01:002019-03-04T20:57:29.400+01:00Freud was pretty smart - and a neurologist before ...Freud was pretty smart - and a neurologist before he was a psychiatrist.<br />So he's probably right.<br />I think neuroscientists have already realized the dorsal striatum in the brain maps the intestinal system.<br />So, Freud could be right on this one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-26272561264959681732009-11-16T16:23:38.558+01:002009-11-16T16:23:38.558+01:00A very corrupt man, IMHO. A little boy called Hans...A very corrupt man, IMHO. A little boy called Hans (aged 5) came to him complaining he feared horses after seeing one fall down in the street. Freud told him his phobia really meant he wanted to sleep with his mother and kill his father and little sister, and had the kid browbeaten until Hans broke down and told his tormentor what he wanted to hear. <br /><br />A 17 year old gay girl called Dora came to Freud complaining her father was having an affair with a woman whose husband had made pedophile passes at her at 13 and 16. Freud told her that she really wanted to sleep with both the pedophile, and his wife, *and* her own dad.... Unsuprisingly, Dora thought this was a load of crap. <br /><br />Every case of Freud's is like this. A vulnerable patient presented with some form of mental distress, sometimes with good commonsense as to the cause thereof, only to have Freud insist on an alternative explanation which was not only unlikely, but crazy and insulting as well. <br /><br />He cured not one of his patients, but wrote each of his cases up as great successes In other words, he knew his theories were a sham but covered this fact up in order to make his name. <br /><br />It's shocking that he has had such great influence in the treatment of mental disorders. He will have done nothing but harm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-50328749865456475992008-04-18T08:38:00.000+02:002008-04-18T08:38:00.000+02:00Nathan has a point. I'm fully in agreement with Po...Nathan has a point. I'm fully in agreement with Popper's criticisms of Freud. However a theory doesn't have to be composed entirely of falsifiable hypotheses to be useful .achttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08817718132877704613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-15105025291098286352008-04-15T08:00:00.000+02:002008-04-15T08:00:00.000+02:00Hello Tom,I enjoy your blog. As a psychiatrist, w...Hello Tom,<BR/><BR/>I enjoy your blog. As a psychiatrist, who admires and has read a much of Freud’s work, I can share that he did not propose a psychoanalytical etiology or treatment for stuttering. In fact, he thought psychoanalysis was not of much help. The theory that I believe you are referring to is derived from the German psychiatrist Otto Fenichel, where he used Freud’s developmental stages, specifically the anal stage of infants where children are toilet trained, to explain stuttering. To paraphrase Dr. Fenichel, stuttering resulted when children’s sphincter control was restricted by the toilet training policies of their parents. The dysfluencies and blocking in stuttering represented the fact that as children, those who stuttered did not develop the proper control of their anal sphincter and the autonomy such an action entails. As a result, they stuttered.<BR/><BR/>Obviously, this is nonsense and psychoanalytic theory doesn’t offer much help to those who stutter. Nonetheless, Freud is a giant in other areas of psychiatry. That a layperson knows of and comprehends terms such as unconsciousness, repression and hypochondriac, is a testament to the extent and validly of his work. Nathan Lavid, MDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-14652702047524924142008-04-06T21:41:00.000+02:002008-04-06T21:41:00.000+02:00Wikepedia...The source of all truth.T h a n k s ! ...Wikepedia...The source of all truth.<BR/><BR/>T h a n k s ! ! !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-87333314269806819032008-04-06T19:04:00.000+02:002008-04-06T19:04:00.000+02:00It is a myth that he made breakthroughs. There wer...It is a myth that he made breakthroughs. There were many psychologists and psychiatrists of his age that were far more scientific, and whose theories hold the test of time.<BR/><BR/>Read this on wikepedia:<BR/><BR/>Although Freud's theories were influential, they came under widespread criticism during his lifetime and afterward. A paper by Lydiard H. Horton, read in 1915 at a joint meeting of the American Psychological Association and the New York Academy of Sciences, called Freud's dream theory "dangerously inaccurate" and noted that "rank confabulations...appear to hold water, psychoanalytically" [21]. Peter D. Kramer, a psychiatrist and faculty member of Brown Medical School, said "I'm afraid [Freud] doesn't hold up very well at all. It almost feels like a personal betrayal to say that. But every particular is wrong: the universality of the Oedipus complex, penis envy, infantile sexuality." A 2006 article in Newsweek magazine called him "history's most debunked doctor."[22]<BR/><BR/>Freud's theories are often criticized for not being real science.[23] This objection was raised by Karl Popper, who claimed that all proper scientific theories must be potentially falsifiable. Popper argued that no experiment or observation could ever falsify Freud's theories of psychology (e.g. someone who denies having an Oedipal complex is interpreted as repressing it), and thus they could not be considered scientific.[24] Author Richard Webster characterized Freud's work as a "complex pseudo-science"[25].<BR/><BR/>H. J. Eysenck claims that Freud 'set psychiatry back one hundred years', consistently mis-diagnosed his patients, fraudulently misrepresented case histories and that "what is true in Freud is not new and what is new in Freud is not true".[26]<BR/><BR/>Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen claims that "The truth is that Freud knew from the very start that Fleischl, Anna O. and his 18 patients were not cured, and yet he did not hesitate to build grand theories on these non-existent foundations...he disguised fragments of his self-analysis as ‘objective’ cases, that he concealed his sources, that he conveniently antedated some of his analyses, that he sometimes attributed to his patients ‘free associations’ that he himself made up, that he inflated his therapeutic successes, that he slandered his opponents."[2]Tom Weidighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02084153394215001999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-79725847863452640152008-04-06T18:36:00.000+02:002008-04-06T18:36:00.000+02:00It's my understanding that Freud himself had a stu...It's my understanding that Freud himself had a stutter. And this changed the methodology of Psychoanalysis. At first he used hypnosis, but found the induction techniques difficult because of his stutter. As a result he developed free association. But I don't recall ever reading what he believed the cause of his own stuttering to be.Dave Rowleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05075890277885768921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-36145510746107576592008-04-06T17:53:00.000+02:002008-04-06T17:53:00.000+02:00How far removed is Freud from the "bleeding" ritua...How far removed is Freud from the "bleeding" rituals from those who came before. For all of the crazy things that Frued did and believed, he made breakthroughs in the way that we look at the human psyche. Pervert, genius, wacko, and godfather can all be used in the same sentence to describe Freud.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com