This is the first of two articles replying to criticisms of psychoanalysis. The second will focus on practice.
Psychoanalysis is dangerous and radical, it brainwashes.
Take the issue of child abuse where it is accused both of denying the facts of abuse and of implanting false memories. Psychoanalysis is impractical and ineffectual, going back to the past and ignoring present problems. 26 Freegrove Rd.