Freud's argument for patient credibility includes uniform details, naive reporting of significant events, and dissociated affect around shocking material.
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Patient Testimony
Freud's argument for patient credibility includes uniform details, naive reporting of significant events, and dissociated affect around shocking material.
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Jiang says Freud initially concluded that women labeled hysterical were telling the truth because many patients with similar symptoms independently reported childhood sexual abuse.
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"There are, however, a whole number of other things that vouch for the reality of infantile sexual scenes. In the first place, there is..."
"Okay, so what he's saying is, is it possible there's conspiracy among these patients? Possibly, but they're telling me, they're giving, like, these details...."
"In the second place, patients sometimes describe as harmless events whose significance they obviously do not understand, since they would be bound otherwise to..."
"Okay, so he says that one thing about this trauma is disassociation, okay? So these patients will reveal details that would shock anyone else,..."
"And Freud at first was shocked. I think everyone would be shocked. But over time, he would hear this story from so many different..."
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