Reminds me of that old fraud, Freud, who diagnosed a 15-year old girl with hysteria because of her stomach pain and when she died of stomach cancer, claimed the cancer was caused by her hysteria. These quacks have no ethics, along with their refusal to learn to think logically. As someone said, a person won't see what they don't want to see.
A few case studies of Freud's known patients:
1. A morphine addict(Fleischl):
Freud told him to take cocaine to cure his addictions. He became addicted to cocaine as well and died a few years later. Freud considered him to be one of his success stories.
2. A patient with epilepsy(Anna O.):
Freud claimed his friend cured her with his talking cure which led to the discovery of psychoanalysis. In reality she worsened so much from the treatment that she ended up in an insane asylum. Freud considered her to be a succcess story.
3. A young female(Eckstein):
Freud recommended removing an inner part of her nose surgically to treat her neurosis. She almost bled to death. To save her a part of her bone had to be removed leaving her permanently disfigured. Freud blamed her psyche for the bleeding claiming it was entirely caused by her mind.
4. Female
This was one of the few cases where a combination of hypnosis and psychoanalysis seemed to work and lifted her depression. In reality the improvement was caused by a beginning manic episode. The patient developed full blown mania and had to be transferred to an institution. Freud continued to treat her giving her various drugs and substances to treat her psychosis. Unfortunately he overdosed her with sedatives and she died from organ failure.
5. Russian aristocrat (Pankejeff)
In psychoanalytic circles this is considered to be one of Freud's biggest success stories. While undergoing prolongued psychoanalytic treatment the wealthy patient voiced concern about the politic situation in russia and felt he needed to return home to protect his fortune. Freud advised him against doing so telling him he still had many issues that needed to looked at. Pankejeff stayed in Vienna and lost his fortune. Freud claimed to have cured him completely but it turns out that Pankejeff continued with Psychoanalysis for over 70 years without any improvement of his mental state.
6. Female
One of Freud's friends wife became seriously depressed. His friend wanted her to get treated by Freud. It is not documented if she was ever treated by him. She committed suicide by jumping out of the window of the house in which Freud had his practice.
7. Wealthy industrialist (Dr. Frink)
Dr. Frink found it hard to accept Freud’s diagnosis of latent homosexuality. Freud told him: “
Your complaint that you cannot grasp your homosexuality implies that you are not yet aware of your phantasy of making me a rich man,”
“If matters turn out all right, let us change this imaginary gift into a real contribution to the Psychoanalytic Funds.”
This is from a total of maybe 10-15 patient that i could find There is not one single cure among them.
Freud was aware that he could not cure his patients while he talk about dramatic cures in public.
In a letter to a friend he wrote:
Patients are nothing but riff-raff. The only useful purposes they serve are to help us earn a living and to provide learning material. In any case, we cannot help them.
To sum it up if(assuming 13 patients):
Killed by Freud: 7.6%
Almost killed: 7.6%
Most likely contributed to death: 15%
Left permanently disfigured: 7.6%
Lost fortune: 7.6%
Severely harmed: 38%
Cure rate 0%
Keep in mind that Freud would destroy a lot of his manuscripts and many of his letters are locked away and not open to the public so some of the worst stuff might never be known.
Now this is the kind of "science" the Kings College likes and that somatisation disorders are based on? What a sad joke.
Off to reward myself with something now.
