“They told me I was treating people with fantasies. Twenty years later those fantasies became textbooks.”
— Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) sold only 600 copies in its first 8 years. The medical establishment dismissed Freud as unscientific. By 1920, psychoanalysis was taught worldwide.
Vienna, 1900. I published a book saying dreams are messages from the unconscious. The medical world laughed. Six hundred copies in eight years. Colleagues called me a charlatan. I kept seeing patients. Kept writing. Kept listening to people tell me things they had never told anyone. Twenty years later every psychology department in Europe taught my work. If you see something nobody else sees, do not wait for permission. Say it. Then keep working until the world catches up.