The Cult of Freud

Psychology Today | 18.06.2026 21:00
You already speak the Freudian language. Words you use without thinking come from one man, and so does the talking cure, the foundation of nearly every psychotherapy practiced today. Many of his insights still help us, and his status as one of the “fathers of psychology” is perhaps well earned. So why would someone who has spent fifty years studying cults and undue influence look at Sigmund Freud at all?