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The Assault on Truth

Jeffrey Masson

A fearless investigation into Freud’s greatest reversal—and the century of silence that followed— In 1896, Sigmund Freud presented his revolutionary “seduction theory,” arguing that childhood sexual abuse directly caused adult mental illness. Just nine years later, he completely reversed this stanc...

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This book was discussed in relation to the classification of people as crazy if they disagree with the establishment. It detailed how the author, Jeffrey Massone, uncovered proof within Sigmund Freud's work that Freud had hidden evidence of child molestation and subsequently created psychoanalysis to gaslight people.

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The second book that we're reading is called The Assault on Truth. Fascinating book. And Skylar, you can bring this up. We spoke about this in book club, but I'm going to give this also to the public,...

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This book was discussed in relation to the classification of people as crazy if they disagree with the establishment. It detailed how the author, Jeffrey Massone, uncovered proof within Sigmund Freud's work that Freud had hidden evidence of child molestation and subsequently created psychoanalysis to gaslight people.

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The second book that we're reading is called The Assault on Truth. Fascinating book. And Skylar, you can bring this up. We spoke about this in book club, but I'm going to give this also to the public, written by this guy named Jeffrey Massone.

So he reached through his documents and he said, Sigmund Freud had proof that these children were being molested by their parents. And he hid it and gaslit them and created modern psychology in the psychoanalytic movement to gaslight people and to figure out how you could gaslight people by just diagnosing them when they were telling the truth about something.

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