35 Things Most People Don’t Know About Sigmund Freud

35 Things Most People Don’t Know About Sigmund Freud

Trista - March 23, 2019

35 Things Most People Don’t Know About Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) in his office in Vienna, circa 1937. Photo taken by Princess Eugenie of Greece, daughter of Marie Bonaparte. (Photo by Bourgeron Collection/RDA/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

14. Modern Psychology is Not Pseudoscience

Sure, there are plenty of ways that cognitive biases of psychologists and researchers filter down into how they understand the human psyche. But today, thanks to the scientific method, psychology does require the formation of testable, falsifiable hypotheses. You have to be able to prove something through experiments with multiple subjects for the theory to be valid. Even though Freud was unable to accomplish this task, he laid the groundwork for it occurring as psychology moved from pseudoscience to hard science.

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