eli5: Why is Freud concidered to be “the father of modern psychology” but at the same time, every psychologist hates freudian analysis?
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Freud is to psychology what Henry Ford is to the automobile. Had groundbreaking theories, paved the way for the people after him, and his ideas were the beginning of a new field, really.
Without Freud we couldn’t have Jung, who agreed with some of Freud’s work but not all of it so he started his own school of thought. We have the first wave of psychology which was Freud and Jung, the second wave people were more emotion focused, and the third wave people are more behavioral focused. But none of it would have been possible without Freud.
As someone said already, Freud has tons of ideas (most, if not all, or which he retracted before he died), but if it wasn’t for his crazy ideas no one would have tried to do it better, this giving birth to better understanding of mental health that we have today.
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