Citation

Esterson A. Hist. Psychol. 2002; 5(1): 85-91.

Affiliation

allenesterson@compuserve.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Educational Publishing Foundation)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11898815

Abstract

D. H. Gleaves and E. Hernandez (1999) write in relation to the seduction theory that "recent writers now argue that ... Freud never made discoveries of sexual abuse" (p. 332) and that "the assertion that Freud did not make discoveries of abuse is unwarranted" (p. 324). In this article an outline of the case that Freud had no adequate grounds for his 1896 claims of having uncovered infantile "sexual scenes" is given. Some of the more important misconceptions and erroneous arguments in Gleaves and Hernandez's article are then examined.

Language: en