The scientific status of psychoanalysis revisited

Agnes Petocz

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    Abstract

    Almost everyone agrees that the question of the scientific status of psychoanalysis has been "done to death". It seems to me that this is indeed so in at least three interrelated senses: the open house, the doomsday cult, and the Cleopatra.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationPhilosophy, Science, and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Meeting
    EditorsSimon Boag, Linda A. W. Brakel, Vesa Talvitie
    Place of PublicationU.K.
    PublisherKarnac Books
    Pages145-192
    Number of pages48
    ISBN (Print)9781780491899
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

    Keywords

    • psychoanalysis
    • science
    • Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939

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