One Paradigm Nukes Another

For the last two decades there's been a vast generational shift taking place in psychology and psychotherapy. The shift is from traditional psychoanalysis--admittedly a very broad term--to cognitive behavioral therapy. The principal difference between the two is that the former focuses on understanding and working through the past and its traumas as a means to overcoming them (hence Freud's emphasis on childhood), while the latter essentially blows off the past and deals with changing current patterns of thinking. According to this article, the shift is nearly complete, at least in academic circles. Somewhere in Vienna, Sigmund Freud is rolling in his grave.