I don't deny that Freud has had a huge impact on the creation of other forms of mental health methodology, I'm just talking about things like: gayness being a disease, everything wrong with you is based on how your mom and dad treated you when you were a kid (hello, genetics?), and the ego id superego stuff is just not empirical in any way. It's not science. I know we wouldn't be where we are today if not for freud, but I feel like we could be much further along if somebody else better and more scientific got all the fame freud did. But you gotta start somewhere.

The history of how mental illness has been dealt with throughout time is really fascinating, that's one of the things that I really found interesting in my abnormal psych class, dating back to the humours (like black bile) and bloodletting and all that.