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No one asserts what you allege in the last sentence. The actual assertion earlier in the thread is that psychiatry, like sociology, to which it is related, is subject to fashions and social trends. If the "recovered memory syndrome" and Sybil can be judged fake after a couple of decades, then so can other currently fashionable psychological maladies, that's all. Recall that much of Freud's theory has been discounted, and heck, he's the "father" of modern psychiatry. My own grandfather was a physician around Freud's time. Much of his knowledge is still current.

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Much of his knowledge is still current.

WADR, I seriously doubt that.