Freud and schizophrenics

Recently, I encountered some quotes on Twitter about Sigmund Freud having had an aversion to people with schizophrenia, and trying to avoid having us as patients.

Have you heard of this? What do you think of Freud, in light of this?

Some psychiatrists on Twitter seem to go out of their way to avoid engaging with me, and other people with mental illnesses. I wonder why this is, and if they are like this for a similar reason as Freud.

I have wondered, if Freud was a narcissist, and if pwNPD tend to be averse to us. What do you think?

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Freud did nothing for serious mental illness and a lot of his stuff is redundant now. It’s kinda scary how much influence he had on psychiatry and therapy but I think moving forward you’d hope we are well past it.

As too engagement it depends on whether your symptomatic. It’s not the thing to reinforce delusions or acknowledge them so shrinks tend to ask questions than give answers.

I’ve a good relationship with my shrink from seeing them first in 1993. We get stuff done because he’s kind and attentive and is quite funny. It’s good to have a good relationship with your mental health carer.

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Freud invented psychoanalysis which is a way of treating patients using logic which doesn’t work for SZ.

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Freud is still very influential in the fields of psychiatry and psychoanalysis.

What is profoundly disturbing about him is how warped his thinking was, and, yet, how many people thought him a genius for it, even so.

He seemed to believe that schizophrenics were narcissists, but, certainly, that isn’t true of most of us. Was he projecting?

Regarding child sexual abuse, he reversed the victim and the offender, so it isn’t like he hadn’t done that, before.

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I don’t consider anything of him basically. Yeah it was hugely influential which was just how it was back then because science hadn’t caught up to the field. He ruined one of his friends promoting cocaine. It was nuts.

Most of his stuff was well before antipsychotics which were like the late 50’s/early 60’s. Scientific theory is littered with hacks and Freud honestly was one in my opinion.

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Why shouldn’t psychoanalysis be helpful for us, also?

We are not wholly irrational, although symptoms often seem that way.

We can try to apply reason and analysis to symptoms, and analyze our lives, before the onset, and how people have engaged with us, since then, also, to try to figure out the nature of this condition, and why it occurs.

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Because basically it’s mostly medicine now. If you don’t respond to medications like the 20% your stuffed. No amount of talking is going to change the biochemicals in your brain.

Yeah medications are brutal. They really are but psychotherapy doesn’t have a good record. Things like cbt do. Change your habits. Change your outlook and strategies to deal with things like hallucinations seems to have benefit.

What will talking do for you if you think the aliens are programming your brain?

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I don’t believe in aliens.

CBT does sound helpful, although I haven’t tried it. Changing how you think is helpful, even if you have thought insertions. How can you change how you engage with them?

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If your not a talker like me then go in with a plan. I used to take notes early. I am not doing good on this med. I have these issues. What are my options?

I was very aggressive for better function and trying something different didn’t scare me. Trouble was that sometimes I went backwards. I really did find it hard but eventually I found meds that worked.

Even then I struggled with the negatives so you have that as well. It all takes work so honestly you have to be knowledgeable about your options. You have to be prepared to listen to your doc if they are any good because it’s totally random but they might have a clue from other patients.

It’s a marathon but you have to play the long game. Rate how your feeling. Is it worth changing if your not going good? I’m not saying therapy isn’t helpful because it’s really good for some so it’s worth exploring. Just don’t stop your meds and keep going…It takes time to get it right for sure for most.

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I don’t hold with a lot of Freud’s teachings. I think he made too much of the unconscious mind, castration anxiety, and penis envy. I like his model of personality, but it doesn’t predict anything or give us any real insight into what is going on with a person. You can say a person is experiencing castration anxiety, but does that give you a better insight into what a guy is likely to do? You would get a better prediction of his behavior if you said “he was really pissed off”.

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I think he hated his father, because of his circumcision, and he never stopped resenting him over it.

Is that where his Penis Envy came from?

Maybe, more to do with his own trauma than anything to do with women?

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Well you see the problem.

Never helped one seriously mental ill person so was just talking rubbish with people and yeah there was so much personal bias there.

Most stuff I know of their theories just don’t stack up in the modern world. Truly. Anyways I’m out. I’ve said enough.

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According to Freud, boys have “castration anxiety”. Women have “penis envy”. Freud drew his conclusions by observing upper class women at a time when women were badly repressed. Behaviors that women were forced into because of their limited power in society were ascribed as “penis envy” by Freud.

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I doubt most women have ever wanted a penis. Instead, they probably just wanted more equitable treatment.

Penis Envy is such an odd concept.

Does circumcision make afflicted men fear castration?

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Women do have a thing about the penis, and I’ve met a few of them that I wouldn’t trust with my own penis, but that’s just me.

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‘Interpretation’ is the most important word. Psychiatry proper never had any doubt that mental illness was a physical problem. There is an ongoing period of unknowing about mental illness. The psychanalysis/ psychotherapy period was really just a century of misguided data collection by liberal artists, so the higher order STEM thinkers could buy some time for science.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Freud was a narcissist

There are a lot of narcissistic doctors.

Besides being a narcissist he was also a Fraud.

Psychoanalysis can be damaging to schizophrenics

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Take it easy on the guy. He was lauded and awarded and praised ans celebrated. He’s like anyone that comes out of institutional society, he fit well into the scheme/plan while someone else who had a better idea but derailed the plan was rejected and made a bum.

At that time they didn’t know any better

Durkhiem had an anomie theory of mental illness. It doesn’t explain all cases of schizophrenia, but I think some people become schizo because they exercise nonrational mental faculties, become unhealthy and poor and use drugs. An anomic breakdown. That could account for maybe half of sz cases. But ‘interpretation’ will lead some people to completely disregard and argue against that idea. Anomic theory turns into “blame society, blame the world for your problems”

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