Never been psychoanalysed myself but the general cultural exposure to it comes off as similar to profiling to me, where you can just say shit in an authoritative position and as long as it isn't absolutely ludicrus and objectively disproven in some way its cool. Not a lot of showing the work(from what I can tell).
Plus it has been used a lot as a personal tool of revenge and escalating grudges by using the language of psychoanalysis(though this is not unique when it comes to the field of psychiatry) to smear someone as secretly all kinds of horrible things based on vague observations backed up by authoritative language. Could be argued that this is more a disease of social media relations than a disease of psychoanalysis but it has colored my perception of it, by its nature as a psychiatric tool you are always more likely to hear about the horror tales and pop culture misuses of it, cause doctors cant exactly brag about the private successes with their patients.
Never been psychoanalysed myself but the general cultural exposure to it comes off as similar to profiling to me, where you can just say shit in an authoritative position and as long as it isn't absolutely ludicrus and objectively disproven in some way its cool. Not a lot of showing the work(from what I can tell).
Plus it has been used a lot as a personal tool of revenge and escalating grudges by using the language of psychoanalysis(though this is not unique when it comes to the field of psychiatry) to smear someone as secretly all kinds of horrible things based on vague observations backed up by authoritative language. Could be argued that this is more a disease of social media relations than a disease of psychoanalysis but it has colored my perception of it, by its nature as a psychiatric tool you are always more likely to hear about the horror tales and pop culture misuses of it, cause doctors cant exactly brag about the private successes with their patients.