I heard that Freudian psychotherapists in the USA have been looking for patients in Asia over Skype.
Freudian therapy is no longer popular in the USA and is considered to be old-fashioned and probably damaging to the patients.
The therapists are looking for patients suffering from anxiety, insomnia, depression, phobias—all the psychological disorders. Sigmund Freud invented a technique called ‘free association.’ The patient would say whatever came into his head, trying not to censor his words. Did it work? No. large-scale studies have found that psychoanalysis is useless as a treatment for disorders of the nervous system. There are very few Freudians left in America.
I know a woman who went through a classical Freudian analysis for ten years. That did not help her, so she went to see a different Freudian therapist for an additional ten years. She was not cured the second time, either. She went on to become a student of the method known as cognitive therapy.
Some questions for discussion:
- Freudian therapy was very popular in the USA at one time but now has been discarded. Many other forms of therapy have sprung up. What is the most popular form of therapy for nervous sufferers in your country?
- Do you think the most serious nervous disorders can be cured? Or do you think a cure is impossible and a nervous disorder must become chronic in nature?
- If you think that a serious nervous disorder must become chronic in nature, why do you think so? What is your opinion based on?
- Can you list some of the methods used in your country to treat or cure nervous or emotional disorders?
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