[houseabsolute]

Considering Freud's theories have never been proven to have a basis in reality, and considering this woman is an entrepreneur and has no apparent expertise in the field she's commenting on, I'd advise you not to give her conjecture much weight.

[Groxx]

How about the unconscious mind? Psychiatric therapy?

Freud wasn't just "sexsexsexsexsex".

[_delirium]

Yeah, especially given the common conceptions of mind at the time he wrote, I see one of his main enduring contributions being the idea that the mind is not something we have full, transparent, introspective access to. A few other philosophers around the time were getting at similar ideas (Nietzsche and Schopenhauer were both interested in the hidden influences that caused people to think and want what they thought and wanted), but the mainstream view was that the mind was fully accessible to itself, i.e. that all thought was conscious.

Of course, that isn't necessarily an endorsement of his much more specific views on male and female gender roles.

[ZeroGravitas]

The unconscious mind is a millenia old idea and psychiatric medicine is roughly as effective as having a chat with a random untrained person.

His work on curing heroin addiction was interesting, even took the remedy himself and found it really perked him up. Cocaine really is a wonder drug.

[ahinds]

I'm a psychiatrist. This statement is obviously not true. Please substantiate with literature reference.