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The Foundations of Psychoanalysis

A Philosophical Critique

Adolf Grunbaum author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:1st Jul '92

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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.

ISBN: 9780520050174

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm

Weight: 454g

256 pages