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"Psychology has stepped down from the university chair into the marketplace" was how the New York Times put it in 1926. Another commentator in 1929 was more biting. Psychoanalysis, he said, had over a generation, "converted the human scene into a neurotic." Freud first used the word around 1895, and by the 1920s psychoanalysis was a phenomenon to be reckoned with in the United States. How it gained such purchase, taking hold in virtually every aspect...
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From its beginnings as an exotic Freudian plant in the hot-houses of Greenwich Village, Freud's theory, stressing the importance of childhood experiences in determining personality development, gained increasing popularity throughout the twentieth century, eventually spreading to become an American cultural kudzu. What are the reasons for this country's overwhelming acceptance of a theory now known to have virtually no scientific basis?
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