diagnosis
Jiang emphasizes that early Freud believed patients and treated their symptoms as evidence of real experiences rather than fantasies.
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Jiang emphasizes that early Freud believed patients and treated their symptoms as evidence of real experiences rather than fantasies.
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Freud's early clinical breakthrough, in Jiang's telling, was to win the trust of women labeled hysterical and hear them say their symptoms came from childhood sexual abuse.
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Freud's early patients are described as traumatized women whose symptoms followed abuse, and early Freud initially believed and advocated for them.
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Jiang presents early Freud as a nuanced scientist who considered false-memory suggestion but concluded that repeated patient testimony supported real trauma.
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Jiang offers a material explanation for Freud's reversal: Freud's patients were young women, but their fathers were often paying him.
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Jiang argues that Freud likely knew many women were telling the truth but changed his story to protect his livelihood.
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"Okay. So what he's saying is, first of all, rape is very common and these children are saying the same thing, okay? Keep on..."
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"...apart from the stigmata, are determined by certain experiences of the patients which have operated in a traumatic fashion and which are being reproduced..."
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"Okay, so this is, the ideas are simple, okay? These women, when they're being hysterical, when they're being anxious, depressed, it's because they suffered..."
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"And he started to see patients. And these patients were often young women who were historical. Historical is not a word we use anymore...."
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"...medical student who became a psychologist. And he started to see patients. And these patients were often young women who were historical. Historical is..."
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"...over time, he would hear this story from so many different patients with the same symptoms that he concluded that they must be telling..."
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"And before, this was not open to the public, and no one knew about these letters. But Jeffrey Masson spent years going over the..."
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"...idea that the doctor forces remnants of this sort on the patient, that he influences him by suggesting to imagine and reproduce them. Nevertheless,..."
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"So based on this evidence, he argues that these patients must be telling the truth. This is the early Freud. This is Sandor Ferenczi,..."
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"...a simple explanation is... Okay. So he may be treating his patients who are young women, but who's paying the bills? The father, right?..."
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"Well, they wouldn't be very happy, okay? So we can understand why, at the end of the day, Freud decided that he needed to..."
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"So as part of this movement, I mean, you can read this, right? Sexual abuse was actually pretty common. So we have evidence to..."
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