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AMATEUR PSYCHOLOGISTS

The ideas of Freudian psychology have become part of our everyday life.

Our language is replete with cliches that have their origin in Freud’s writings.

There is a surfeit of amateur psychologists who, with celerity, analyze an individual’s problems from the slightest evidence.

Despite their dubious education and training in this field, they discuss symptoms and cures on a most erudite fashion.

Should a person express a fear of height, this phobia is examined; events from childhood are considered germane to the problem.

Is it possjble he or she was dropped as an infant? Perhaps something in a dream is pertinent to explain the feelings of vertigo that accompany height.

For some reason, non-trained people find the Freudian approach to the workings of the human mind most conducive to their practicing as amateur psychologists.