Collogue:Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud wis not a psychiatrist. PolisherofCobwebs explains why on simple English wikipedia's talk page for this article. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sigmund_Freud "As a qualified doctor working with subjects suffering psychological problems he was both a psychologist and psychiatrist." Sorry, but that's simply wrong. Working with people suffering from psychological problems doesn't make anyone a psychologist; it makes someone, if anything, a psychotherapist. Psychology and psychotherapy are not the same thing, and neither one of them is the same as psychiatry or psychoanalysis. If this article makes elementary confusions of that kind, then it is serving its readers very poorly. The fact that people may expect to see Freud categorized as a psychologist doesn't mean that he should be. Polisher of Cobwebs (talk) 07:04, 8 March 2011 (UTC) Being a doctor doesn't make anyone a psychologist or a psychiatrist either. The idea that Freud was a psychologist is a popular fallacy, one that Simple English Wikipedia shouldn't be perpetuating if it wants to be a high-quality work of reference. The psychologist category has been removed from the main English Wikipedia article about Freud; it should be here too. Consider the possibility that the category people might expect to find someone in could be the wrong category - getting the facts right ought to take priority over giving people what they expect. Polisher of Cobwebs (talk) 07:12, 8 March 2011 (UTC)"--FDR (tauk) 18:52, 18 Mairch 2015 (UTC)