Freud Fried

Nothing has pleased me more than the destruction of the reputation of Sigmund Freud over the last few years.  The first shots were fired when Sir Peter Medawar (the Nobel prize winner) described psychoanalysis as "the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth
 century" and followed it up with a brief dismissal.  This was in the New York Review of Books a few years ago.
Since then there has been a satisying flow of books about the old charlatan. T.he best one to start with is "The Memory Wars" by Frederick Crews.  After that serious readers can take up a much larger tome, "Why Freud was Wrong" by Richard Webster.  I shall come back to this subject later on  when I cannot think of anything else to say.

* A man goes to see his doctor. "Doctor, doctor; I am suffering from constipation.  Shall we use short  words or long ones?"  "Short ones course." So we did,