On the last Friday of each month, Russ Winter of http://winterwatch.net jumps on board and on this episode of FAR, Russ unloads on Sigmund Freud and the outright scam of his psychoanalytic approach, which shaped modern psychiatric theory for nearly the whole of the 20th century, influencing millions with his half baked theories, all mostly based around keeping his the daughters of well paying Viennese clients in a constant state of therapy to deal with their hysteria. Freud had discovered that the source of their emotional turmoil was in fact due to their being sexually molested at home. But once Freud confronted the parents, they were furious and threatened to stop payment and treatment. Freud then forged his Oedipal theories and ascribed them to the girls hysteria, thus making sure the payments for their therapy would keep flowing.
Freud was also a coke head and thought it was the cure all for just about anything, even doing his own (flawed) studies on himself as a user.
In short, an entire field of work that was taken very seriously was the imaginarium of a crackpot.
Freud's daughter, Anna went on to bring his work to the USA and corporatize Freudian thought and treatment. Later in Anna's life, she had realized she had made serious errors in applying her father's work as a canvas for "normalcy" in post WWII America.
We get into this and a lot more with Sigmund Fraud.