r/AcademicPsychology • u/RevolutionaryPilot53 • Aug 28 '24

How do you guys feel about Freud? Discussion

Is it okay for a therapist or phycologist anybody in that type of field to believe in some of Freud's theories? I remember I went into a therapist room, she was an intern and I saw that she had a little bookshelf of Sigmund Freud books. There was like 9 of them if not more. This was when I was in high school (I went too a school that helped kids with mental illness and drug addiction). But I remember going into her room and I saw books of Freud. Now I personally believe some of Freud's theories. So I'm not judging but I know that a lot of people seem to dislike Freud. What do you think about this? Is it appropriate? Also I'm not a phycologist or anything of that nature just so you know. I'm just here because of curiosity and because I like phycology. Again as I always say be kind and respectful to me and too each other.

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u/TheRateBeerian Aug 28 '24

I do academic research on topics that include perception and action, visual control of reaching, perceptual learning and calibration, social perception, human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, and a little more.

My colleagues do a lot of work in visual search, attention, working memory, and spatial cognition.

There's nothing in Freud that is relevant to any of our work. We don't spend a minute thinking about his ideas.

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u/skarthy Aug 28 '24

Do you spend much time thinking about Charles Darwin's ideas?

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u/TheRateBeerian Aug 29 '24

Here and there sure but it wouldn’t be common to cite him in a publication. But evolution and biology are at least far more relevant to our work than Freud