"Bad" Mothers: The Politics of Blame Re: Radio Doug

[Doug Henwood]

Miles Jackson wrote:

>Despite the popularity of Freud in the broader academic and
>popular culture, many actual psychologists who do research and
>develop theories pretty much ignore his work, for two simple
>reasons: (1) many psychodynamic ideas cannot be adequately tested
>and (2) when people have systematically tested psychodynamic
>ideas, they are often inconsistent with data (e.g., the idea
>of catharsis).

Catharsis? Are you saying that's an important part of psa?

Doug