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Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis (1995; second edition 1996; third edition 2005) is a book by Richard Webster, in which he provides a critique of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis,Woffinden 2011. arguing that Freud became a kind Read More..

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Description	Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis (1995; second edition 1996; third edition 2005) is a book by Richard Webster, in which he provides a critique of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis,Woffinden 2011. arguing that Freud became a kind of Messiah and that psychoanalysis is a pseudo-science and a disguised continuation of the Judaeo-Christian tradition.Storr 1996. p. 131. Webster endorses Gilbert Ryle's arguments against mentalist philosophies in The Concept of Mind (1949). The book for which Webster may be best remembered, Why Freud Was Wrong has been called "brilliant"Gathorne-Hardy 2005. p. 92. and "definitive",Tallis 1999. p. 457. but has also been criticized for shortcomings of scholarship and argument.Swales 1995.Masson 1998. pp. 320-321.Showalter 1997. pp. 41, 45. The work formed part of the "Freud wars", an ongoing controversy around psychoanalysis.
Description	Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis (1995; second edition 1996; third edition 2005) is a book by Richard Webster, in which he provides a critique of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis,Woffinden 2011. arguing that Freud became a kind of Messiah and that psychoanalysis is a pseudo-science and a disguised continuation of the Judaeo-Christian tradition.Storr 1996. p. 131. Webster endorses Gilbert Ryle's arguments against mentalist philosophies in The Concept of Mind (1949). The book for which Webster may be best remembered, Why Freud Was Wrong has been called "brilliant"Gathorne-Hardy 2005. p. 92. and "definitive",Tallis 1999. p. 457. but has also been criticized for shortcomings of scholarship and argument.Swales 1995.Masson 1998. pp. 320-321.Showalter 1997. pp. 41, 45. The work formed part of the "Freud wars", an ongoing controversy around psychoanalysis.

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Name	Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis
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Authors	Richard Webster
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Language	English
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Pages	673 (2005 edition)
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Isbn	978-0951592250
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