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Feminists and most non-Freudian therapists disagree. They believe women are more susceptible to agoraphobia because they are taught as girls that the outside world is dangerous and then grow up to be stay-at-home housewives who can afford to nurse their fears of the unknown. Give women confidence and jobs outside the home, they say, and female agoraphobia will drop to the male level...
Although he said he believes in "the basic Freudian principles that everything is basically connected to sex," Flynt later admitted he had "never read Freud...
Shiffrin is one of many devotees of a growing fad known as "past-lives therapy." Essentially, its practitioners take a conventional Freudian idea-that much adult behavior is unconsciously guided by early traumas-and apply it to the concept of reincarnation. Although the treatment has had a following in the U.S. and Europe for at least 15 years, more and more Americans are experimenting with the notion that their psychological problems arose during previous existences as, say, Shinto priests, Roman guards, citizens of Atlantis or even another planet...
...anyone who has grown up male in the United States, driving an automobile transcends the rather rudimentary coordination one needs to stay in lane on highways. For reasons that swell Freudian literature, driving becomes a symbolic, even a sexual act. (Praised be the soft enchantress who likes the way we shift...
...does not idealize the mental institution as a citadel of scientific wisdom and compassion, nor caricature it as a latter-day Bedlam administered by sadists. It does not explain away its protagonist's schizophrenia with some unearthed childhood trauma, as if the condition were a sort of Freudian acrostic to be solved...