Yes, that's true. Freud's legacy will be one of being a pioneer in the science, but not for what he did.

June 2006 | 123 » Essays » After Freud
On his 150th anniversary, Freud's legacy is being dismantled by the ideas of his greatest challenger, Aaron Beck.
Alexander Linklater
Robert Harland

When early patients of Freud's complained to him that nothing could change the original circumstances which made them unhappy, he agreed—with a caveat: "Much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness." This is one of Freud's most celebrated remarks, though it appears in Studies in Hysteria, which was published in 1895, before he had developed the full psychoanalytic method. But it captures the pessimism—or realism—which threads its way through all Freudian practice.

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/a...ls.php?id=7457

His fatalistic view permeated everything, IMO that stemmed from his depression. (err hysteria.)