Science And Psychoanalysis

Author : Simon Boag,Linda A. W. Brakel,Vesa Talvitie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429917271

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Philosophy, Science, and Psychoanalysis by Simon Boag,Linda A. W. Brakel,Vesa Talvitie Pdf

The perennial interest in psychoanalysis shows no signs of abating and the longevity of psychoanalytic theory is seen in the varied extensions and elaborations of Freudian thinking in the fields of neuroscience and cognitive theory. Nevertheless, the scientific standing of psychoanalysis has long been questioned and developments in the fields of the philosophy of science and psychology require a fresh assessment of the scientific standing of psychoanalysis. While there are a range of views on the topic of whether psychoanalysis is in fact scientific, any satisfactory approach to understanding mind and behaviour requires an approach that is at once both philosophic and scientific. Accordingly, to even approach the question regarding the scientific nature of psychoanalysis, a foundation comprising a sophisticated conceptual and philosophical framework is required. This volume represents the junction where philosophy, science, and psychoanalysis meet and presents arguments critical and supportive of the scientific standing of psychoanalysis.

Author : Peter Fonagy,Linda Mayes,Mary Target
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429898426

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Developmental Science and Psychoanalysis by Peter Fonagy,Linda Mayes,Mary Target Pdf

As a discipline, psychoanalysis began at the interface of mind and brain and has always been about those most basic questions of biology and psychology: loving, hating, what brings us together as lovers, parents, and friends and what pulls us apart in conflict and hatred. These are the enduring mysteries of life and especially of early development-how young children learn the language of the social world with its intertwined biological, genetic, and experiential roots and how infants translate thousands of intimate moments with their parents into a genuine, intuitive, emotional connection to other persons. Basic developmental neuroscience and psychology has also of late turned to these basic questions of affiliation: of how it is that as humans our most basic concerns are about finding, establishing, preserving, and mourning our relationships. These areas in broad strokes are the substance of mind and brain, and the last decade has brought much new science to the biology of attachment, love, and aggression.

Author : Adolf Grunbaum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1985-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520907324

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The Foundations of Psychoanalysis by Adolf Grunbaum Pdf

This study is a philosophical critique of the foundations of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. As such, it also takes cognizance of his claim that psychoanalysis has the credentials of a natural science. It shows that the reasoning on which Freud rested the major hypotheses of his edifice was fundamentally flawed, even if the probity of the clinical observations he adduced were not in question. Moreover, far from deserving to be taken at face value, clinical data from the psychoanalytic treatment setting are themselves epistemically quite suspect.

Author : Dianne F. Sadoff
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0804735085

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Sciences of the Flesh by Dianne F. Sadoff Pdf

“Psychoanalysis may be said to have been born in the twentieth century,” Freud said late in his career, “but it did not drop from the skies ready-made.” And in his speculative theories of modernism, Bruno Latour argued that “no science can exit from the network of its practice.” Deploying Latour’s model of scientific theory production, this book argues that the historical emergence of psychoanalysis depended on nineteenth-century scientific practices: laboratory experimentation, medical transmission of research findings along collegial or social networks, and medical representation of illness—including case studies, amphitheatrical demonstration of cases, hospital records of symptoms, and laboratory graphology and photography of patients. The author shows how hysteria enabled Freud to appropriate medical and scientific concepts from neurology, sexology, gynecology, psychiatry, and existing rest cures and psychotherapies. His new model eschewed physiological determinism, linking unconscious ideation with counterwill and reproduced memory, psychosexual experience, and affect-laden images of object relations (usually with family members). Constructing around himself a psychoanalytic circle and establishing training institutions, Freud translated this new psycho-physical body and hybrid subjectivity to other research sites. Just as in the 1890’s he had used the figure of the hysteric to mobilize theory production, by the 1920’s he had replaced the hysteric with a modernized figure, the homosexual. Freud used autobiography, summary, and outline to stabilize his concepts and control the dissemination of his new science. Psychoanalysis had successfully created new scientific “plausible bridges” between psyche and soma, nature and the social, to produce a modern theory of hybrid subjectivity that was rooted in yet conceptually separated from the body.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013146514

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Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pushpa Misra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429907852

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The Scientific Status of Psychoanalysis by Pushpa Misra Pdf

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, the author asserts that Grunbaum's argument over suggestibility is not supported by textual evidence and gives her own formulation of Freud's argument to show how the problem of suggestibility can be dealt with. To counter the charge of the invalidity of the repression argument, the author addresses the two specific objections of Grunbaum: first, that repression can be a maintaining rather than an originating cause of neurotic symptoms, and, second, that by eliminating rival candidates it is possible to formulate a valid argument for repression aetiology. This book is a must-read for all those interested in the stature and reputation of psychoanalysis in the scientific world.

Author : Richard Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Psychoanalysis
ISBN : 0951592254

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Why Freud was Wrong by Richard Webster Pdf

This is the first complete and coherent account of Freud's life and work to be written from a consistently sceptical point of view. Meticulously researched and powerfully argued, the book is a devastating portrait of the interpreter of dreams.

Author : Sidney Hook
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1412832276

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Psychoanalysis, Scientific Method, and Philosophy by Sidney Hook Pdf

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.

Author : André Haynal
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520082990

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Psychoanalysis and the Sciences by André Haynal Pdf

The relationship existing between science and psychoanalysis has long been tense, critical, even hostile. Andr Haynal addresses this relationship by examining three questions: how is psychoanalytic "knowledge" established? what methodology and epistemology underlie psychoanalytic theory? and what are the historical circumstances that have shaped psychoanalysis? Haynal is familiar with the full spectrum of analytic thought and begins with a systematic discussion of analytic theory. The second part of the book covers a series of historical topics and includes discussions of Freud and his relations with his followers. A chapter on Freud and his "favorite disciple," Sandor Ferenczi, is an engrossing account of the complex intellectual and personal connection the two men shared. The relationship existing between science and psychoanalysis has long been tense, critical, even hostile. Andr Haynal addresses this relationship by examining three questions: how is psychoanalytic "knowledge" established? what methodology and epistemology underlie psychoanalytic theory? and what are the historical circumstances that have shaped psychoanalysis? Haynal is familiar with the full spectrum of analytic thought and begins with a systematic discussion of analytic theory. The second part of the book covers a series of historical topics and includes discussions of Freud and his relations with his followers. A chapter on Freud and his "favorite disciple," Sandor Ferenczi, is an engrossing account of the complex intellectual and personal connection the two men shared.

Author : Bhargavi V Davar,Parameshwar R Bhat
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995-05-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015034444425

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Psychoanalysis as a Human Science by Bhargavi V Davar,Parameshwar R Bhat Pdf

This work continues the debate on whether psychoanalysis can be treated as a cognitive science, providing an epistemological rationale for the field's scientific validity, as well as an ethical rationale for its humanism. The authors reject the humanist and empiricist constructions of various theories as "foundationalist," and develop a philosophical foundation which they term "cognitivist." They address issues related to social science and society, and to psychotherapeutic research. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Louis Althusser
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231542104

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Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences by Louis Althusser Pdf

What can psychoanalysis, a psychological approach developed more than a century ago, offer us in an age of rapidly evolving, hard-to-categorize ideas of sexuality and the self? Should we abandon Freud's theories completely or adapt them to new findings and the new relationships taking shape in modern liberal societies? In a remarkably prescient series of lectures delivered in the early 1960s, the French philosopher Louis Althusser anticipated the challenges that psychoanalytic theory would face as politics moved away from structuralist frameworks and toward the elastic possibilities of anthropological and sociological thought. Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences translates Althusser's remarkable seminars into English for the first time, making available to a wider audience the origins and potential future of radical political theory. Althusser takes the important step in these lectures of distinguishing psychoanalysis from psychology and especially psychiatry, which long resisted Freud's analytical concepts of the unconscious and overdetermination. By freeing psychoanalysis from this bind, Althusser can then apply these analytical concepts to the social and the political, integrated with Marxist theory. The result is an enlivened methodology for comprehending social organization and change that had a profound influence on the Frankfurt School and scholars who continue to work at the forefront of radical thought today: Judith Butler, Étienne Balibar, and Alain Badiou.

Author : G. Currie,A. Musgrave
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400950931

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Popper and the Human Sciences by G. Currie,A. Musgrave Pdf

Although Sir Karl Popper's contributions to a number of diverse areas of philosophy are widely appreciated, serious criticism of his work has tended to focus on his philosophy of the natural sciences. This volume contains twelve critical essays on Popper's contribution to what we have called the 'human sciences' , a category broad enough to include not only Popper's views on the methods of the social sciences but also his views on the relation of mind and body, Freud's psychology, and the status of cultural objects. Most of our contributors are philosophers whose own work stands outside the Popperian framework. We hope that this has resulted in a volume whose essays confront not merely the details of Popper's argu ments but also the very presuppositions of his thinking. With one exception, the essays appear here for the first time. The exception is L.J. Cohen's paper, which is a revised and considerably expanded ver sion of a paper first published in the British Journalfor the Philosophy of Science for June 1980. We would like to thank Loraine Hawkins and Jane Hogg for their editorial assistance and June O'Donnell for typing various manuscripts and all the correspondence which a volume of essays entails.

Author : James E. Goggin,Eileen Brockman Goggin
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1557531935

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Death of a "Jewish Science" by James E. Goggin,Eileen Brockman Goggin Pdf

In this compelling book, the role of the continual trauma that the Third Reich had on individual psychoanalysts is used to assess the events of the transformation of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute into the Goring Institute. Through this investigation, it is determined whether or not psychoanalysis survived at the Goring Institute during the Third Reich. During the course of the novel the Third Reich is further explained as well as the possible extinction of psychoanalysis.

Author : Wilma Bucci
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1572302135

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Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science by Wilma Bucci Pdf

Although psychoanalytic concepts underlie most forms of psychotherapy practiced today, the basic Freudian theory of mind the metapsychology does not mesh with current scientific views in psychology and related fields. As a result, despite its many strengths, psychoanalysis has been relegated to the periphery by clinicians and researchers alike. Filling a significant void, this book from cognitive scientist and psychoanalytic researcher Wilma Bucci proposes a new model of psychological organization that integrates psychoanalytic theory with the investigation of mental processes. Solidly rooted in current cognitive science, multiple code theory recognizes the focus on meanings and motives that is intrinsic to psychoanalytic clinical work. The theory points to parallel functions underlying free association and dreams, as well as conceptual development in children and creative work in sciences and the arts, and provides a strong foundation for empirical research on the psychoanalytic treatment process.

Author : Michael Rustin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780567067227

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Reason and Unreason by Michael Rustin Pdf

The justification and legitimacy of psychoanalytic knowledge and its relevance to social and political questions.