Why Freud Wrote Stories

Author +Marilyn Wedge has a nice post in +Psychology Today about Why Freud Wrote Stories | Psychology Today. She says in part “In some ways, I think that most, if not all, the classifications in the DSM can be reduced to post traumatic stress disorder. That, too, was an insight that Freud got by listening to his patients’ stories. Behind the troubles for which his adult patients consulted him, he inevitably found repressed experiences of childhood trauma. He elicited the stories of the traumas by means of his talking cure and hypnosis. For Freud, stories were never just fiction. They were the best way of getting at the truth…”

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