Goodbye Sigmund Freud: The case for exorcising the ghost of Freud from the field of psychology.

The argument put forth in this paper is that Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theories were pseudoscientific and philosophical rather than empirical. Several examples are given to support this conclusion. It is further argued that Freud and his theories should be completely expurgated from the field and not taught in universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]