| The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique Volume 2 Contributor(s): Grunbaum, Adolf (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520050177 ISBN-13: 9780520050174 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $33.61 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1985 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 150.195 |
| LCCN: 83009264 |
| Series: Pittsburgh Philosophy and History of Science |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.79" W x 8.86" (1.00 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study is a philosophical critique of the foundations of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. As such, it also takes cognizance of his claim that psychoanalysis has the credentials of a natural science. It shows that the reasoning on which Freud rested the major hypotheses of his edifice was fundamentally flawed, even if the probity of the clinical observations he adduced were not in question. Moreover, far from deserving to be taken at face value, clinical data from the psychoanalytic treatment setting are themselves epistemically quite suspect. |