Editing Psychoanalysis (section)

===Witch doctors===
[[Richard Feynman]] wrote off psychoanalysts as mere "witch doctors":<ref>{{Cite book|last=Feynman|first=Richard|title=The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist|publisher=Penguin|year=2007|location=London|pages=114–5|author-link=Richard Feynman|orig-year=1998}} Feynman was also speaking here of psychiatrists.</ref>

{{Blockquote| If you look at all of the complicated ideas that they have developed in an infinitesimal amount of time, if you compare to any other of the sciences how long it takes to get one idea after the other, if you consider all the structures and inventions and complicated things, the ids and the egos, the tensions and the forces, and the pushes and the pulls, I tell you they can't all be there. It's too much for one brain or a few brains to have cooked up in such a short time.<ref group=lower-roman>Feynman was also speaking here of psychiatrists.</ref>|author=|title=|source=}}

Likewise, psychiatrist [[E. Fuller Torrey]], in ''Witchdoctors and Psychiatrists'' (1986), agreed that psychoanalytic theories have no more scientific basis than the theories of traditional native healers, "witchdoctors" or modern "cult" alternatives such as [[Erhard Seminars Training|EST]].<ref name="Torrey">[[E. Fuller Torrey|Torrey, E. Fuller]]. 1986. ''Witchdoctors and Psychiatrists''. p. 76.</ref> Psychologist [[Alice Miller (psychologist)|Alice Miller]] charged psychoanalysis with being similar to the [[poisonous pedagogy|poisonous pedagogies]], which she described in her book ''For Your Own Good''. She scrutinized and rejected the validity of Freud's [[Drive theory (psychoanalysis)|drive theory]], including the Oedipus complex, which, according to her and [[Jeffrey Masson]], blames the child for the abusive sexual behavior of adults.<ref>{{cite book |title = ''Thou shalt not be aware: society's betrayal of the child'' |last = Miller |first = Alice |publisher = Meridan Printing |year = 1984 |location = NY }}</ref> Psychologist Joel Kupfersmid investigated the validity of the Oedipus complex, examining its nature and origins. He concluded that there is little evidence to support the existence of the Oedipus complex.<ref name="Kupfersmid, Joel" />