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The Hoax of Freudism: A Study of Brainwashing the American Professionals and Laymen

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Freud was the major credible way of therapy when I was an original editor of this book in the 1960's as an undergraduate and first year graduate student. There was an explosion of methodologies that brought variety. It was wonderful for a moment in time. Individuality and personalization came into mental health care, bringing a variety of patients a variety of ways to hope, and be helped. The old specters of absolutist certainty still haunt the halls and corridors of schools, institutions, and offices exactly as Dr. Jurjevich describes in Freud. Subsequent trends in mental health have seen each and every school of treatment become a tyranny unto itself; each contradicting the other. Damning, condemning, and pathologizing those who do not accept or respond to their methodology as intractable has become a trend in most genres of mental health treatment. The head was cut off the Freud's ego 'monster' to became "Dragon Seeds" or a "Hydra," of egos devouring patients in machinations that see Drs. Jurjevich, Bernard Spilka, O. Hobart Mower, Curtis McDougal, Dimitrije Pivnicki, Edward R. and Cathey Pinckney rolling in their graves as I shake my head in disgust. Hart; Emeritus in Colorado. endlessquestions@hotmail.com July 2000.