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This by now well-known pioneering dialogue on Freudian analysis is concerned not with therapeutic implications, individual or social, of psychoanalysis or of any other brand of psychology, but solely with the status of psychoanalysis as a scientific theory. Matching talents with a distinguished group of philosophers and social scientists, psychoanalysts made their claims and willingly subject them to the methodological scrutiny common to the sciences and the philosophy of science. This book records one of the few times in the United States that a distinguished group of psychoanalysts met with an equally distinguished group of philosophers of science in a free, critical interchange of view on the scientific status of the field. While a sense of the event's excitement is captured here, it also had clear results, such as an expanded notion of psychoanalysis as a scientific theory, and a clear realization that certain elements in psychoanalysis are substantially beyond the boundaries of

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PART I Psychoanalysis and Scientific Method PART II Psychoanalysis and Society PART III Psychoanalysis and Philosophy PART IV Discussion, Criticism, and Contributions by Other Participants

Psychoanalysis Scientific Method and Philosophy

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
      Published 30 April 1990
      ISBN-13 9780887388347
      978-0887388347
      ISBN-10 0887388345
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      Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

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      Book Synopsis

      This by now well-known pioneering dialogue on Freudian analysis is concerned not with therapeutic implications, individual or social, of psychoanalysis or of any other brand of psychology, but solely with the status of psychoanalysis as a scientific theory. Matching talents with a distinguished group of philosophers and social scientists, psychoanalysts made their claims and willingly subject them to the methodological scrutiny common to the sciences and the philosophy of science. This book records one of the few times in the United States that a distinguished group of psychoanalysts met with an equally distinguished group of philosophers of science in a free, critical interchange of view on the scientific status of the field. While a sense of the event's excitement is captured here, it also had clear results, such as an expanded notion of psychoanalysis as a scientific theory, and a clear realization that certain elements in psychoanalysis are substantially beyond the boundaries of

      Table of Contents
      PART I Psychoanalysis and Scientific Method PART II Psychoanalysis and Society PART III Psychoanalysis and Philosophy PART IV Discussion, Criticism, and Contributions by Other Participants

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