The reality: Professor Crews argues that Freud devised a self-validating method of inquiry, deluded himself about his patients' illnesses, and failed to cure them.

现实版是库斯教授日认为弗氏设计了一个自我证实探究的方法，在患者的疾病上欺骗患者，最后却并未治愈他们。

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The piece presents a tawdry taxonomy of the sad and self-deluded types struggling to make music without starving.

WSJ: Listen to Your Listeners | Postmodern Times by Eric Felten

We are still stuck with the travails of four New York friends: Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), and Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), the sharpest and yet somehow the most self-deluded of them all.

NEWYORKER: Sex and the City