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The statement, an email this month from the executive committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association to its 3,500 members, represents the first significant crack in the profession's decades-old united front aimed at preventing experts from discussing the psychiatric aspects of politicians' behavior.<ref>[http://www.businessinsider.com/major-psychiatry-group-says-members-can-discuss-trump-mental-health-2017-7?r=UK&IR=T A major psychiatry group has said its members can defy a long-standing rule and discuss Trump's mental health], ''Business Insider''</ref>}}

The statement, an email this month from the executive committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association to its 3,500 members, represents the first significant crack in the profession's decades-old united front aimed at preventing experts from discussing the psychiatric aspects of politicians' behavior.<ref>[http://www.businessinsider.com/major-psychiatry-group-says-members-can-discuss-trump-mental-health-2017-7?r=UK&IR=T A major psychiatry group has said its members can defy a long-standing rule and discuss Trump's mental health], ''Business Insider''</ref>}}

[[Karl Popper]] indicated that psychoanalysis is merely a [[pseudoscience]] because its claims are not testable and therefore they cannot falsifiable.<ref> Popper KR, "Science: Conjectures and Refutations", reprinted in Grim P (1990) Philosophy of Science and the Occult, Albany, 104–110</ref>

[[Karl Popper]] indicated that [[psychoanalysis]] is merely a [[pseudoscience]] because its claims are not testable and therefore they cannot falsifiable.<ref> Popper KR, "Science: Conjectures and Refutations", reprinted in Grim P (1990) Philosophy of Science and the Occult, Albany, 104–110</ref>

[[Sigmund Freud]] and the atheistic and pseudoscientific [[Sigmund Freud|Freudian]] [[psychoanalysis]] has had a cultish following.<ref>[http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/paper-CrewsFreud.html The Freudian psychoanalysis cult] by Kevin MacDonald, Ph.D.</ref><ref>[http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/5th-october-1985/32/the-pretensions-of-the-freudian-cult The pretensions of the Freudian cult by Thomas Szasz, ''The Spectator'', 4 OCTOBER 1985, Page 32]</ref> See also: [[Atheist cults]]   

[[Sigmund Freud]] and the atheistic and pseudoscientific [[Sigmund Freud|Freudian]] [[psychoanalysis]] has had a cultish following.<ref>[http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/paper-CrewsFreud.html The Freudian psychoanalysis cult] by Kevin MacDonald, Ph.D.</ref><ref>[http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/5th-october-1985/32/the-pretensions-of-the-freudian-cult The pretensions of the Freudian cult by Thomas Szasz, ''The Spectator'', 4 OCTOBER 1985, Page 32]</ref> See also: [[Atheist cults]]