Board Thread:Speculation Board/@comment-24.238.59.139-20140614215335


 * Freud promoted his personal conjecture (called 'Psychoanalysis') as a Medical Specialty to laymen, and managed to take over an entire Medical system called "Psychiatry". (Psychiatry previously staffed only phsycians and medical specialists)


 * Szasz dedicated his entire life to fighting Psychoanlaysis as a Medical Specialty, even allying himself with the only source of funding he could find - a brand new religous movement.


 * Both ended their lives with suicide (on the philosphical grounds they had the right end their own phsycial suffering) - save freud had someone else do it for him on his wishes.

Freuds death was interesting, he had advanced oral cancer. Szasz's movement was converted into 'anti-psychiatry' (which he never identified with) and continued after his death. Psychiatry is still a field of psychology, but compromised by requiring psychiatrits to be also medically ceritifed in general medicine after the 1960's.

Szasz's effort was ultimently complimented by the UN's ratifying of the CRPD human rights treaty in 2007, which banned 'involuntary psychiatric commitment' and 'involuntary psychiatric treatment' as "Deprivation of access to medical care" and "inhuman, degrading treatment that may consitute torture". Freud was mostly (only mostly) discredited by psychology, and psychiatry completely modified his conjecture (calling the orgional simply "fiction") after the 1960s. John F Kennedy's own sister was lobotomised, leading to kennedy's "Community Mental health Act" which cut funding to 75% of psychiatry's institutions freeing some 600,000 people from detention outside the court system by non-physcian 'doctors'. Psychotherapy (talk therapy) is still practiced in Psychaitry today. (Freud once blamed chemical and surgical lobomies on "laymen inproperly certified in Psychoanalysis")

Freuds legacy also includes the re-emergence of "Medical Psychology" in modern times, now a legalized profession in 2 US states which allow non-phsycians psychologists to prescribe psychaitric treatments.

Now this would be an interesting rap battle! 