Gay's biography of Freud

2004-10-24 Thread Allen Esterson
I make no apology for returning to the subject of Peter Gay's biography of Freud to cite one of the more egregious of the many misleading sections in its pages, one that reveals more than most its deeply flawed essence. These comments are especially for the benefit of TIPSters giving introductory

Re: Freud again

2004-10-24 Thread Scott O Lilienfeld PhD
My understanding is that Rorschach did indeed select cards that seemed to do a decent job of distinguishing schizophrenic (or perhaps more broadly psychotic) individuals from non-schizophrenic individuals. So Christopher Green is correct that at least some of Rorschach stimuli were selected

Re: Gay's biography of Freud

2004-10-24 Thread Allen Esterson
Oh, my gosh. What a difference the omission of a single word makes, even it it consists of only two letters. In my comments on 24 October about Gay's failure to inform readers about the serious confabulations Freud perpetrated in his Rat Man case history I wrote the following sentence: It would be