This text examines the process of psychoanalysis and discusses the inability of the analyst to determine the patient's actual experiences through the recollections of the patient.
This text examines the process of psychoanalysis and discusses the inability of the analyst to determine the patient's actual experiences through the ...
Until recently, psychoanalysis has been a most reluctant recipient of the new inheritance. For most of its century-long life it has clung to the positivist epistemology of Freud, its founding genius, belying his hope that his followers would be as skeptical about received wisdom in their time as he was in his. Psychoanalysis has protected itself from change by preserving its store of founding metaphors in their original form.
Until recently, psychoanalysis has been a most reluctant recipient of the new inheritance. For most of its century-long life it has clung to the posit...
As psychoanalysis approaches its second century, it seems no closer to being a science than when Freud first invented the discipline. All the clinical experience of the past hundred years, Donald Spence tells us in this trenchant book, has not overcome a tendency to decouple theory from evidence. Deprived of its observational base, theory operates more like shared fantasy. In support of this provocative claim, Spence mounts a powerful critique of the way psychoanalysis functions--as a clinical method and as a scholarly discipline or "science." In the process, he prescribes an antidote for...
As psychoanalysis approaches its second century, it seems no closer to being a science than when Freud first invented the discipline. All the clini...
