Part 1 Beginning assumptions: Anna O. and the origins of Freud's personality theory; Charcot, hypnosis and determinism; Freud, determinism and hysteria; Freud's adaptation of Breuer's treatment method; causes and the actual neuroses. Part 2 First theories and applications: mechanisms of symptom formation; a theory of the neuroses; expectations, actual neuroses and childhood seduction; dreams and symptoms; a theory of sexuality. Part 3 The final synthesis: the ego and the ego-instinctual drive; the instinct theory finalized; the structures of the mind. Part 4 Evaluation: psychoanalysis as theory and therapy; psychoanalysis as a method; psychoanalysis as science.
The book entitled Freud Evaluated by Malcolm Macmillan is a product of many years of intensive labor. In his foreword, Frederick Crews states that the glory days of psychoanalysis are long gone and that this book assures that it is time for reason to prevail. -- Ernest R. Hilgard, Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Stanford University Macmillan's book is one that the serious student of Freud, and of his theoretical claims, simply cannot do without. To his intellectual credit, Macmillan has given psychoanalytic apologists a fair, and more than fair, hearing. Commentators of the next century who are interested in understanding why a hundred years after Freud, psychoanalytic theory began undergoing a thorough revision, will use Macmillan's text as a point of departure. An extraordinary work. -- John Kerr, author of A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein Aside from Ernest Jones's and Peter Gay's hagiographies, it is clear that there are three great Freud books in this century: Frank Sulloway's biography, which places Freud clearly as a biologist and a scientist. Adolph Grunbaum's critique, which views Freud from the perspective of the philosophy of science. And Malcolm Macmillan's book, which applies to Freud the standard which he always presented himself as seeking: a scientific psychologist. Macmillan does something absolutely unique and unexpected: he goes to the sources that Freud cited as the basis for his views, and finds that in almost every case Freud misunderstood or misrepresented what was there. It is an unbelievably important book and it will challenge psychoanalysis into the next century. -- John F. Kihlstrom, Professor, Department of Psychology, Yale University Macmillan's monumental book represents the culmination of two decades of research into the origins and validity of Freud's psychoanalytic ideas. In the course of a penetrating critique of Freud's methods and findings, Macmillan demonstrates convincingly just where Freud went wrong. Freud Evaluated provides a brilliant, rich, and indispensable contribution to the scientific appraisal of pscyhoanalysis. -- Frank Sulloway, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT "Although there may be a veritable torrent of books on Freud, there are few that can compare with this one in its historical breadth and detail and the comprehensiveness of its critique of Freudian theory... an important achievement... indispensable for any serious student of psychoanalytic theory." Morris N. Eagle, Contemporary Psychology
Malcolm Macmillan is Adjunct Professor in the School of Psychology at Deakin University, Australia.
"Although there may be a veritable torrent of books on Freud, there are few that can compare with this one in its historical breadth and detail and the comprehensiveness of its critique of Freudian theory... an important achievement... indispensable for any serious student of psychoanalytic theory." Morris N. Eagle, Contemporary Psychology
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