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"And what made it even sadder was basic Jungian talking points were getting shit on. This has always been a pro-psychoanalysis subreddit. Now it's like every other subreddit where redditors with room temperature IQs act like they're Einsteins because they hate Freud and don't believe in astrology."
"Seeing way too much talk therapy on here lately. This sub needs to retvrn to trad and get back to Freud. And no I don't necessarily mean lying on a couch for 5 hours every day but your therapist should not be texting with you, flirting with you, or just straight up telling you how to live your life."
"Have we given up on trying to solve problems holistically? do i need to get into something niche and wacky like psychoanalysis or old chinese philosophy to understand this shit"
"It honestly seems like psychoanalysis is less empirical and intellectually rigorous than subjects which don't even claim to be exact sciences like history or literary criticism. In contrast to this psychology is treated by most lay people as the hardest of the soft sciences when it genuinely seems l"
"Cbt/psychoanalysis has its place, don't get me wrong. Relational problems get resolved in relational settings, but sometimes you really don't need to talk."
"A shift away from this is particularly visible in psychology throughout the 20th century - the initial goal of psychoanalysis wasn't just to feel good, it was to really understand and elevate yourself by gaining a type of knowledge which was previously inaccessible. It inherited a lot of philosophic"