THICK BOG OF METAPHOR AND THE NEW-WAVE HERMENEUTIC DEFENSE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS :: a critique.

Psychoanalysis, in Freud's day and our own, has met with and continues to meet with staunch opposition from critics--from philosophers of science, like Adolf Grünbaum, and psychoanalysts, like Robert Holt--who see empirical confirmation as a problem of scientific practice. If therapists cannot...

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1. Verfasser: Holowchak, M. Andrew (Mark Andrew), 1958- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Place of publication not identified] CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLIS, 2020.
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Zusammenfassung:Psychoanalysis, in Freud's day and our own, has met with and continues to meet with staunch opposition from critics--from philosophers of science, like Adolf Grünbaum, and psychoanalysts, like Robert Holt--who see empirical confirmation as a problem of scientific practice. If therapists cannot ground therapy in a theory that is scientifically verifiable and that has some degree of confirmation, what is the merit of psychoanalysis, or more generally, of any form of psychotherapy?A common answer today, an apologia, is that psychotherapy is best understood as a hermeneutic discipline and not as a.
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Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1527547868
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