Lawrence Wright’s “Going Clear,” Scientology, Freud, and Child Abuse

Apr 16th--"...Some of you may know that I began my working life as a Freudian analyst, and bowed out (other expressions come to mind) over the issue of child abuse.  In one sentence:  I believed Freud was right the first time, when he believed in the reality of child abuse, which he called the Seduction Theory, and wrong some years later when he renounced it.  Freudians, when I was in training, believed the opposite.  So trouble was bound to occur. It did.  I was fired from my position as Projects Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives.  That was many years ago.  But the issues behind child abuse do not die so easily, as we have seen with the scandals in the Catholic Church...."

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