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must read - clinical examples of Hobson. says in psychodynamic neurology about a treatment programme for childhood trauma
Reading this book is weird in ways that I cannot describe. It's very disorientating at times - to flip from the author's comments about the sexual attractiveness of a former patient to being told we are at the epoch of a renaissance of neurology... I can't help but feel these different things would be better off not juxtaposed in the same book...? Moreover, the author's frustration and attempts to repudiate their Freudian teachings sometimes go too far - the science is in your favour, so let it speak for itself.
The problem is Hobson cannot help himself when it comes to his loathing of Freud, and it leads him to arrive to frankly, incredulous conclusions. For example “(Freud's) own account of his academic frustration may have exaggerated the effects of anti-semitic prejudice.”
To say that Jews in Vienna during the period just before WW2 were not prejudiced in their careers is almost as mind boggling as Hobson's theory. Why could he have not focused more on the relationship between cholingeric and aminergic activities and dreaming? I'd recommend the Dream Drugstore to anybody instead, this book doesn't know what it is trying to do.
