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In Chapter 4, we examined the Rogerian construction of a saleable product around warmth, empathy and unconditional positive regard. Chapter 5 explored the behaviourial presentation of healers as objective, disinterested scientists. Both schools owed a great deal to marketing and presentation skill. Arguably the greatest sales professional in therapy, though, was Sigmund Freud himself.
A psychoanalyst is one who pretends he doesn’t know everything.
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Gilbert Ryle, Concept of Mind. Hutchinson, 1949.
David Smail, Taking Care: An Alternative to Therapy. Dent, 1987.
Ernest Gellner, The Psychoanalytic Movement, p. 137. Paladin, 1985.
See, for example, Peter Rutter’s Sex in the Forbidden Zone. Mandala, 1990.
Freud initially thought that many of these claims were genuine, but he later changed his mind and described such confessions as female imagination. Jeffrey Masson argues, in The Assault on Truth: Freud’s Suppression of the Seduction Theory (London: Faber & Faber, 1984), that Freud backed down not because he genuinely changed his mind, but through moral cowardice in the face of a society that did not want to hear about sexual abuse. In his most recent work, Final Analysis (Addison-Wesley, 1990), Masson shows how power and status are still given priority over truth. He was expelled from the psychoanalytic community for daring to produce evidence from the Freudian archive suggesting that Freud colluded in ignoring the widespread abuse he knew to be occurring.
Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man. Pelican, 1948, reprinted 1979.
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Howard, A. (1996). Psychodynamic approaches. In: Challenges to Counselling and Psychotherapy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13825-8_7
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