The Assault on Truth
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Product details
- Publisher : Histria Academic
- Publication date : September 30, 2025
- Language : English
- Print length : 380 pages
- ISBN-10 : 159211654X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1592116546
- Item Weight : 13.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.6 x 8.9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank:#1,851 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- Christina PaigeThe False Note at the Heart of Freudian PsychologyIt is impossible to truly understand the impact Freud had on society or psychology, or the backlash he encountered and how those threats darkened the nascent science, without reading this book, for this is an account of how, when a young doctor named Freud informed fellow professionals that women were affected by the trauma of sexual assaults, sometimes perpetrated by family members, he was given a choice: recant, or be utterly blackballed from practicing, anywhere. And these men meant it. Some of the young women in question were the daughters of their own colleagues, after all. And so, Freud folded. He warped his accounts to claim that the symptoms of psychological illness were expressions of sexual fixation and desire for unattainable relationships with fathers. I hope to God he didn't actually tell his patients that; I hope he had the shreds of courage, of integrity, to be honest with them; but either way, the damage done to other women, and to the profession of psychology itself, was ghastly. To this day we are contending with 'ignore the victim - or blame her' mentalities and policies, and widespread lies of "She really wanted it," while thousands and hundreds of thousands of girls and women have their lives blighted by seduction and rape. And every Freudian psychologist who tried to persuade a female client that she was suffering from an Electra complex has perpetuated the lie.
For anyone who wishes to understand how the practice of psychology can betray its clients and patients, this is essential reading. Then, to take the bad taste out of your mouth and to remind yourself what psychology is supposed to be, go read some Maslow, or Leadership and Self-Deception, or some other really good example of applied psychology for the welfare of mankind.
The author's research is meticulous, thorough, and presented with a simplicity and clarity that lets the reader face it all for himself or herself. This is the very best sort of research, and this book is a model of superb writing. You may be overcome with rage, fury, or grief, but you will also be provoked to THINK. - CassieVery interesting bookGreat book. highly suggest it
- SkyMust readSchools should have to read this book. Just shows the lie we are forced to still live in today.
- PeaceLAJillIf you want the truth read the bookGreat writer about an important subject.
- JuliaHighly recommendGreat quality and very interesting to read and learn
- Kindle Customer searsfainAlmost unbearable details reveal how Sigmund Freud repeatedly witnessed proof ...Almost unbearable details reveal how Sigmund Freud repeatedly witnessed proof that sexual abuse of children existed (often so extreme that it resulted in the child corpses he is known to have viewed in morgues) -- proof so overwhelming that Freud spent the mid-1890's believing that accounts of the trauma of childhood sexual abuse described to him by women patients were true. Masson strongly asserts that Freud's decision to deny this truth for the rest of his career in order to further his creation of Freudian psychoanalysis deserved Masson's exposure when he found, during his suddenly interrupted tenure at the Freud Archives, indubitable proof of Freud's deliberate "assault on truth." In the Freud Archives, a personal attack on Masson by Janet Malcolm, written in response to Masson's whistle-blowing on the origins of psychoanalysis, appeared in The New Yorker in 1993 and was published by Knopf in 1984. Malcolm was found by the US Supreme Court in 1991 to deserve to face trial for libel in response to five damaging quotes she fabricated against Masson.
- MurjgreviewVery in depth analysis of the primary premise. Knowing what I have learned through the years about the deficiencies of Freudian analysis, it is still sad to realize just how fundamentally flawed Freud's premises were from the outset and his questionable integrity.
- Joyce rJrCould not finish. Read maybe 30 pages. Just very sad how children are treated. Even by those trying to help them