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Debating Freud on His Sesquicentennial [4min]

Sigmund Freud was born 150 years ago this week. One of his greatest contributions -- the talking cure -- is used less these days in favor of psychiatric drugs. Commentator Lennard Davis would like to defend Freud, and talk therapy. Lennard Davis is a professor of Literature, Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where is also the director of Project Biocultures.
Read entire article at NPR "All Things Considered"