http://mindhacks.com/2007/11/26/freud-widely-taught-except-in-psychology-departments/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:47:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2007/11/26/freud-widely-taught-except-in-psychology-departments/#comment-26076 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:43:58 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/freud-widely-taught-except-in-psychology-departments/#comment-26076 Freudian psychology dates back 80-100 years, what might his views be if he lived another 50 years on ?

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2007/11/26/freud-widely-taught-except-in-psychology-departments/#comment-7019 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:36:10 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/freud-widely-taught-except-in-psychology-departments/#comment-7019 Other reasons for the teaching of freud in the humanities
a) it’s cheap — all you need to analyse a book is some time. Analysing a person requires consent, and expensive training, and the expectation that you’ll provide what you promise, or at least do no harm
b) mainstream psychology is far less loose, discourse-wise. There is a mainstream (evidence-based, cognitivist) which squeezes out other approaches. Humanities have more capacity (even a need?) for comparing and contrasting different approaches perhaps.

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