As the hunt for the originator of the Freud "iceberg" quote gathers ever more momentum, I jumped forward to some of the 37,000 Google pages for "Sigmund Freud" + iceberg. No luck, but I found the following, which shows that you don't have to be a professor of psychology at Harvard to be historically ignorant about Freud and psychotherapy - but it helps:
>Freud invented the concept of the unconscious, his most important idea to stand the test of time, says Drew Westen, a psychologist at Emory University who has studied the Viennese analyst's contributions. "Before him, nobody realized that our conscious mind is the tip of the mental iceberg."< Drew Westen, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School http://www.psychology.emory.edu/clinical/westen/index.html Home News Tribune ("Central Jersey's voice since 1879") 7 May 2006 http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060507/LIFE/605070338/1006 /LIFE Another purveyer of ignorance in the same article: >[Freud] also pioneered the idea that a therapist could help ease emotional pain. "He invented psychotherapy," says David Baker, director of the Archives of the History of American Psychology, based at the University of Akron.< And for sheer fatuousness how about this: >Still, the modern world confirms Freud was prophetic in sensing the power of religion to channel human aggression into destructive paths, says Naomi Janowitz, director of religious studies at University of California-Davis. "He knew there were powerful, aggressive motives that religious leaders could tap into."< Is there any psychological notion, no matter how venerable, that has not been attributed to Sigmund Freud. Verily the United States is still infatuated with Freud. Where are the fact-checkers? Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org/ http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10 http://www.srmhp.org/0202/review-01.html http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=18 http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=195 --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
