Why Do We Still Teach Freud If He Was So Wrong?

Go to http://curiositystream.com/psych to start streaming Light On Earth. Use the promo code ‘psych’ during the sign-up process to get your first 31 days free! Freud is one of the most famous psychologists ever, but a lot of the things he taught are just… well, wrong. So why do we still spend so much time talking about this dude in psychology classes? Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow   SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Tumblr:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ---------- Sources: https://www.simplypsychology.org/psyc... https://www.britannica.com/biography/... https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jfkihls... http://icpla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2... https://www.thenational.ae/uae/scienc... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-x... http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/atta... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2... http://www.maisondesolenn.fr/IMG/docu... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20... https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/... https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/we... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... https://www.claytonschools.net/cms/li... https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0aa5... http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/2014... https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-freud-sti... IMAGE SOURCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/si... https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/ps... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/we-... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sta...