Pitfalls of a One-Sided Image of Science

Adolf Grünbaum's Foundations of Psychoanalysis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8335656
AutoresEdwin R Wallace (Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior Medical College of Georgia Augusta, GA 30912, autor de correspondencia)
Año1989
Volumen37
Número2
Páginas493-529
Fecha de publicación1989-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000306518903700209
PMID2760403
OpenAlexW2108606311
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas38

Adolf Grünbaum's (1984) The Foundations of Psychoanalysis has received extensive attention in psychoanalytic and philosophical circles. Aspects of Grünbaum's argument are reviewed and criticized. While his volume is an important contribution to the epistemological assessment of psychoanalysis, it reflects serious shortcomings in at least four areas: its treatment of the role of suggestion in the analytic enterprise, its scrutiny of the psychoanalytic genetic method, its appreciation of analytic methodology as actually practiced, and, above all, its predication on a unidimensional, positivistic vision of science. Alternative approaches to the philosophy of psychoanalysis are suggested

Argument (complex analysis) · Epistemology · Positivism · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychoanalytic Therapy · Scrutiny · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications