1st Edition
The Scientific Status of Psychoanalysis Evidence and Confirmation
By Pushpa Misra
Copyright 2016
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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In his Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique, Adolf Grunbaum claimed that the arguments supporting psychoanalytic hypotheses are both logically invalid and unsound. They are invalid because they violate the cannons of inductive elimination, and unsound because the clinical data is contaminated by the suggestive influence of the analyst.In a spirited defence of psychoanalysis,... Read more
Preface -- Introduction -- Part I -- The background: Popper and psychoanalysis -- The inductive criterion -- The ghost of suggestibility -- The problem of error -- Part II -- Is Freud guilty of faulty reasoning? -- Causal fallacies in psychoanalysis
Biography
Misra, Pushpa
