The Only Cure by Mark Solms Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing
What's it about? The Only Cure (2026), reexamines one of the most controversial figures in the history of science and finds that the case against him was aimed at the wrong target. It argues that while Sigmund Freud's theories were flawed and of their time, the method he built around them remains uniquely equipped to address the kind of suffering that conventional psychiatry fails to cure. For more than half a century, one of medicine's most powerful ideas has been dismissed as unscientific. Since the latter-half of the Twentieth-Century, the work of pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was abandoned as unverifiable in clinical settings. What replaced it as a treatment for mental disorders is faster, cheaper, and measurable. It is also, for a significant class of human suffering, not helpful. Some patients find their lives and health unraveling despite seeking medication and cognitive-behavioral therapies. They may develop chronic pain conditions, autoimmunity, heart ...