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Apnaa Gungadin meanwhile got hold of this story too and has immediately rushed to his massas to repeat his tricks..

Since Kripal is mentioned in that article I might as well post this link..

http://www.sundayherald.com/51783

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Black Book Of Psychoanalysis – How To Live, Think And Get On Better Without Freud, follows a critical path that is well-trodden in the US and Britain, where experts have long since questioned the veracity of Freud’s case studies as well as the validity of his ideas. <b>In France, around 70% of French psychiatrists base their treatment of depression, phobias and other mental ailments on Freudian theory.</b>

Most countries now use of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) – which works by helping a patient understand and overcome patterns of behaviour. Pure French Freudians see this as a superficial mechanism designed to return patients to usefulness in the results-based societies of “le monde Anglo-Saxon”.

Authors of the Black Book – 40 experts from 10 countries – trace the Freudian domination of France back to May 1968 when followers of the master and his French disciple Jacques Lacan took control of the psychiatric establishment. <b>France is the world’s biggest per capita consumer of anti-depressants and tranquillisers as the result</b>, the authors claim, of the failures of the couch-and-notebook school and the lack of any alternative.

One section of the book entitled “Victims Of Psychoanalysis” contains painful accounts from French mothers of autistic children. <b>Freudian theory had it that autism was caused by the mother’s “unconscious wish that the child should not exist”</b>.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->