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*''transference'' (promoting an emotional relationship between the therapist and client in order to aid in the healing process).

*''transference'' (promoting an emotional relationship between the therapist and client in order to aid in the healing process).

Psychoanalysis as a [[clinical psychology | clinical]] method has in many cases been shown to be as effective as other ''talk therapies''.<ref>[http://ask.metafilter.com/99906/Different-types-of-therapy Different types of therapy]</ref>

Psychoanalysis as a [[clinical psychology | clinical]] method has in many cases been shown to be as effective as other ''talk therapies''.<ref>[http://ask.metafilter.com/99906/Different-types-of-therapy Different types of therapy]</ref> Freud may have been aware of his work being damaging and unscientific, as he mentioned to a fellow immigrant on the way to America that "[Freud] was bringing [the West/America] the plague," in reference to his work.<ref>"We are bringing them the plague." -Freud on his way to America in 1909. Quoted in Richard Noll, The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), 47.</ref>

On the other hand, Freud's debunkers declare his "cures" to be the product of [[wishful thinking]] and ''conscious fudging'' as well as to suffer from usage of [[circular logic]]. Peter D. Kramer, a psychiatrist and author of a biography of Freud maintains that every particular of Freudian psychology such as the universality of the Oedipus complex, penis envy, and infantile sexuality, is wrong. Even Freud's most orthodox adherents do not defend his entire body of work in all its details.<ref>{{cite web |title=Freud in Our Midst |author=Jerry Adler |publisher=newsweek.com |date=March 26, 2006 7:00 PM |url=http://www.newsweek.com/freud-our-midst-106495 |accessdate=December 25, 2013 |quote=}}</ref>   

On the other hand, Freud's debunkers declare his "cures" to be the product of [[wishful thinking]] and ''conscious fudging'' as well as to suffer from usage of [[circular logic]]. Peter D. Kramer, a psychiatrist and author of a biography of Freud maintains that every particular of Freudian psychology such as the universality of the Oedipus complex, penis envy, and infantile sexuality, is wrong. Even Freud's most orthodox adherents do not defend his entire body of work in all its details.<ref>{{cite web |title=Freud in Our Midst |author=Jerry Adler |publisher=newsweek.com |date=March 26, 2006 7:00 PM |url=http://www.newsweek.com/freud-our-midst-106495 |accessdate=December 25, 2013 |quote=}}</ref>