Sigmund Freud

First of all, is he worth reading? If so:

>What is his most influential work?
>Is it all bullshit?
>What are the greatest works of criticisms against him?
>And is there somthing that he wrote that is not bullshit, and is worth reading?

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freud smoked a dozen cigars a day and fucking rangewalked during lunch. he was a manic lunatic.

read Jung.

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He also used cocaine

Freud is dead. Biggest problem is that his claims aren’t scientific. Psychoanalysis is not a valid way to understand the problems people have, and it doesn’t work in helping people with those problems.

Read Albert Ellis instead. GOAT

What are some of the main works of psychology to read? I want to read William James.

Freud is worth reading as a comedy

t. Nabokov

>Biggest problem is that his claims aren’t scientific
And yet he still formed the basis of nearly all modern psychoanalysis and philosophy.
>Psychoanalysis is not a valid way to understand the problems people have, and it doesn’t work in helping people with those problems.
LOL oh I'm sorry I didn't realize you were retarded.

Albert Ellis was a pioneer in CBT and a pretty big self help author, so that’s where I’d start, specifically “A Guide to Rational Living” and “How To Refuse To Make Yourself Miserable About Anything — Yes Anything!”

Don’t let the self help angle fool you though, he was very rigorous in his theory. There’s a lecture on YouTube that he did called “How to Be a Perfect Non-Perfectionist.” I’d watch that to get the gist.

>And yet he still formed the basis of nearly all modern psychoanalysis and philosophy.

I didn't say he wasn't influential.

>LOL oh I'm sorry I didn't realize you're retarded

Psychoanalysis has shown to continually not have worked (unlike psychoTHERAPY). This is the reason why Cognitive Therapy became so popular (as well as the ineffectiveness of antidepressants). For example, the reason for your disorder can change with analysts. One will say your small penis makes you talk less to get less attention, another will say you talk less because your mother called you ugly whenever you opened your mouth. It's all interpretation with infinite possibilities. If anything it only makes you feel worse because now you hate yourself for your small penis or your father.

And how would knowing any of that, if it were true, help you solve your problem at all? (it wouldn't)

Wring, wrong, wrong; kys.