Oh, sure. Reich was pretty good on much of his analysis of authoritarian personality, for instance, and anticipated later work by Fromm, Adorno, and others. But after half a lifetime of actually being persecuted, he apparently lost the ability to say "oops" and went paranoid.

Bayesian rationality, cognitive science, and AI have better math and better data about the mind than early-20th-century psychoanalysts or late-19th-century economists. But we still have to watch out for death spirals.