"[Freudian psychoanalysis] was embraced enthusiastically almost from the beginning in spite of the complete lack of evidence in its favour (Freud claimed the opposite, but historians have demonstrated that he and his followers were very economical with the truth (Eysenck, 1990, Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire). Experimental studies have been almost universally negative, and so have clinical investigations; yet Freud still flourishes-admittedly only among the ignorant."