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A Freudian stamp

Ask people to name a psychologist, and the answer you will get most often is Sigmund Freud. Yet his first major work was written nearly 130 years ago, and many of his ideas are now discredited. Such is the power of original thought.

Of course, writing about sex helps. Freud blew apart the prim Victorian era with his theories that mental illness was caused by sexuality,

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