Barry Opatow
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry Opatow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry |
| FAMILY NAME | Opatow |
| SIGNATURE | OPATOW B |
| AFFILIATIONS | NYU School of Medicine and SUNY-Brooklyn School of Medicine; Training and Supervising Analyst, NYU Psychoanalytic Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On The Scientific Standing of Psychoanalysis
This paper speaks for the claim that psychoanalysis qualifies as a scientific enterprise. It will derive from the conceptual and evidential structure of psychoanalysis a causal empirical hypothesis that admits of scientific intraclinical testing. Relevant topics from the philosophy of science (especially the nature of causal explanation and the work of Grünbaum) and the psychoanalytic theories of pathogenesis and therapeutic action are discussed …
The Real Unconscious
Inquiries into hallucinatory wish fulfillment and the unconscious converge and, by distinguishing the concept of the unconscious in psychoanalysis from that of cognitive psychology, serve to bring out what is most essential to the psychoanalytic conception. Freud's topographical model is used to stress that the psychoanalytic unconscious can be understood only in relation to theories of consciousness and wishing. Moreover, in contrast to the cogn…
Observation and Insight in the Science of Experience
American Imago - Volume 54, Number 3, Fall 1997
Meaning in the Clinical Moment
The Real Unconscious
Inquiries into hallucinatory wish fulfillment and the unconscious converge and, by distinguishing the concept of the unconscious in psychoanalysis from that of cognitive psychology, serve to bring out what is most essential to the psychoanalytic conception. Freud's topographical model is used to stress that the psychoanalytic unconscious can be understood only in relation to theories of consciousness and wishing. Moreover, in contrast to the cogn…
Meaning in the Clinical Moment
On The Scientific Standing of Psychoanalysis
This paper speaks for the claim that psychoanalysis qualifies as a scientific enterprise. It will derive from the conceptual and evidential structure of psychoanalysis a causal empirical hypothesis that admits of scientific intraclinical testing. Relevant topics from the philosophy of science (especially the nature of causal explanation and the work of Grünbaum) and the psychoanalytic theories of pathogenesis and therapeutic action are discussed …
Meaning in the Clinical Moment
The Real Unconscious
Inquiries into hallucinatory wish fulfillment and the unconscious converge and, by distinguishing the concept of the unconscious in psychoanalysis from that of cognitive psychology, serve to bring out what is most essential to the psychoanalytic conception. Freud's topographical model is used to stress that the psychoanalytic unconscious can be understood only in relation to theories of consciousness and wishing. Moreover, in contrast to the cogn…
Observation and Insight in the Science of Experience
American Imago - Volume 54, Number 3, Fall 1997
On The Scientific Standing of Psychoanalysis
This paper speaks for the claim that psychoanalysis qualifies as a scientific enterprise. It will derive from the conceptual and evidential structure of psychoanalysis a causal empirical hypothesis that admits of scientific intraclinical testing. Relevant topics from the philosophy of science (especially the nature of causal explanation and the work of Grünbaum) and the psychoanalytic theories of pathogenesis and therapeutic action are discussed …
Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (3 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (2 works) · Unconscious mind (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 work)