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[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Loved my psych professor. When we went over him she made it VERY clear that we were only doing so because he happened to be influential in the founding of modern psychology, but otherwise he was full of shit and a horrible person.

Edit: I'm an absolute dumbass and somehow mixed up Schrödinger and Freud.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Are you perhaps thinking of someone else? As far as I'm aware, Schrödinger is only well known for work in particle physics, quantum mechanics, and related physics fields.

[–] bunchberry@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Don't forget his contribution to paedomechanics.

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No, I think I am. I have somehow confused Schrödinger for Freud.

Wow. Brains be dumb sometimes.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 6 days ago

Freud was definitely influential, and definitely full of shit, so that tracks. Psychoanalysis is completely empirical, written as an unattackable dogma rather than science, and has been proven without any beneficial effect as a treatment on most psychological troubles. But because Freud was so influential, especially in France, almost all French psych universities are teaching his bullshit first and almost exclusively.

Also, the amount of shit he's written leads to modern day psychoanalysts with absolute horrors of diagnoses like "it's that kid's mother's fault that they have autism, because she loves them wrong".