Pretty sure I remember a study that eclectic psychotherapy has lower efficacy than manual based psychotherapy, buts it been a few years…

“However, this doesn’t mean everything he did was worthless.”

Agreed - its popularity actively set back our collective understanding of the mind.

Maybe his stuff on eel genitals was better but in psychology… no, neither rigor nor methodology are things I’d attest him. Nor getting things meaningfully right despite this. Nor to be the first, given that the psychophysics people were already doing work that’s both scientifically sound and still a solid basis for contemporary work.

Or read the article?