Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy

• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I’m not a medical historian, but he must have been of some use, otherwise we’d have never heard of him.

  Just because a lot of his work has been supplanted doesn’t mean he should be condemned

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    It’s not about condemming him.

    What he did was basically kick off the whole genre of research. And for that he is still credited and well-known.

    But it seems you missed the context of this thread. It started with someone sarcastically joking that cocaine is “famously good for your health”, to which someone sarcastically mock-backed the claim by referencing that Freud did back cocaine.

    There’s no need or point in defending this very debunked claim.

    Btw, Freud recommended cocaine as a medication against alcoholism. He administered cocaine to an alcoholic friend of his, and it did nothing against his alcoholism. In fact, the friend died soon after off a combined alcohol-cocaine overdose. This did not stop Freud from claiming that cocaine is great. He even got his girlfriend hooked on it.

    Freud did start the whole field of research, but his own research has been debunked a very long time ago. There’s basically nothing of his research left that still counts as “state of the art”, but sadly many uneducated people still repeat his nonsense.

    It’s kinda like believing that Carl Benz’ earliest car patents still have any relevance in modern car design. We credit Carl Benz for kickstarting the research in combustion engine cars, but nobody would be stupid enough to think that early research in that field has any relevance to today’s practice.

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