He was a psychiatrist, a student of Freud.
What would you expect.
I forgot to put the /s in my original post.
Whatever you may believe, he was remarkably accurate when it came to predictions of surface and atmospheric conditions on Venus in the 1950s - before any probe had gone there.
The dismissal you gave is exactly the same meme that mainstream science gave, without being able to account for his Venus predictions (which at the time was believed by mainstream science to have earth-like conditions).
See “Velikovsky Reconsidered” for more.