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...Recent developments in dream research won't make sense without first touching on the academic thunderbolt of 1977, when a paper by two Harvard neurophysiologists, Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley, ran in the American Journal of Psychiatry. At the time, Sigmund Freud's theory of dreams (which holds, in part, that dreams preserve sleep by distracting the brain with reflections of the unconscious) was a pillar of psychiatry. In The Brain as a Dream State Generator: An Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis of the Dream Process, the Harvard pair challenged Freudian theory on virtually every point. They argued that dreams are nonsense...
...throughout his life, Einstein was consistent in rejecting the charge that he was an atheist. "There are people who say there is no God," he told a friend. "But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views." And unlike Sigmund Freud or Bertrand Russell or George Bernard Shaw, Einstein never felt the urge to denigrate those who believed in God; instead, he tended to denigrate atheists. "What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos," he explained...
...sweeps stunt. Two dudes kissing is gross-out humor. It's Sacha Baron Cohen open-mouthing Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights. It's a million Brokeback Mountain jokes. It's the Snickers Super Bowl ad, in which two mechanics locked lips while sharing a candy bar. (Or, as Freud might have said, a "candy bar.") Even in post-- Queer Eye pop culture, lesbians can choose lovers; gay men can choose drapes...
...Beddoe-the subject of a Time cover story in 2005-writes that Braydle's goatee and narrow spectacles lent him a Freudian air. And in the therapist's preoccupation with sex there are echoes of the work of Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis, the family of psychological theories and methods he devised in the 1890s, underpins the many forms of psychotherapy available today. Freud postulated the existence of the unconscious, which he said is shaped by early experience and can profoundly affect moods and behavior, its secrets detectable in dreams and slips of the tongue. "[Braydle] would justify his treatment of [Beddoe...
...calls for a rethinking of the drug-based approach to treating depression. Aside from lifestyle changes, the only alternative for sufferers is some form of psychotherapy, whose quality could be lifted, experts say, if governments required people calling themselves psychotherapists to meet certain standards. Some of Freud's ideas have been rightly discarded, says Gil Anaf, president of Australia's National Association of Practising Psychiatrists, but Freud was right in arguing that early trauma can mess up people for life: "And with drugs you can't even touch personality difficulties and maladjustment...