Acknowledgments
Introduction: Critique of the Hermeneutic Conception of
Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy
Chapter 1. The Exegetical Legend of "Scientistic
Self-Misunderstanding"
Chapter 2. Critique of Habermas's Philosophy of
Psychoanalysis
A. Does the Dynamics of Psychoanalytic Therapy Exhibit the
"Causality of Fate"?
B. Are Nomological Explanations in the Natural Sciences Generically
Non-Historical, While Causal Accounts in Psychoanalysis are
Historically-Contextual?
C. Does the Patient Have Privileged Cognitive Access to the
Validation or Discreditation of Psychoanalytic
Hypotheses?
Chapter 3. Critique of Ricoeur's Philosophy of
Psychoanalysis
A. Ricoeur's Truncation of the Purview of Freudian Theory
B. Are Natural Science Modes of Explanation and Validation Gainsaid
in Psychoanalysis By the Pathogenicity of Seduction Fantasies, Or
By the Explanatory Role of "Meaning"?
C. Does the Theory of Repression Furnish a "Semantics of
Desire"?
D. Ricoeur's Disposal of "The Question of Proof in Freud's
Theory"
Chapter 4. Are Repressed Motives Reasons But Not Causes of Human
Thought and Conduct?
Chapter 5. Critique of GeorgeS. Klein's Version of Hermeneutic
Psychoanalysis
Chapter 6. The Collapse of the Scientophobic Reconstruction of
Freud's Theory
Part I. The Clinical Method of Psychoanalytic Investigation:
Pathfinder or Pitfall?
Chapter 1. Is Freud's Theory Empirically Testable?
A. Clinical versus Experimental Testability:Statement of the
Controversy
B. The Purported Untestability of the Psychoanalytic Theory of
Personality
Chapter 2. Did Freud Vindicate His Method of Clinical
Investigation?
A. Are Clinical Confirmations an Artifact of the Patient's Positive
"Transference" Feelings Toward the Analyst?
B. Freud's Reliance on the Hypothesized Dynamics of Therapy as a
Vindication of his Theory of Unconscious Motivation
C. Was Freud's Attempted Therapeutic Vindication of the
Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality Successful?
Part II. The Cornerstone of the Psychoanalytic Edifice: Is the
Freudian Theory of Repression Well Founded?
Chapter 3. Appraisal of Freud's Arguments for the Repression
Etiology of the Psychoneuroses
Chapter 4. Examination of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Slips-of
Memory, the Tongue, Ear, and Pen
Chapter 5. Repressed Infantile Wishes as Instigators of All Dreams:
Critical Scrutiny of the Compromise Model of Manifest Dream
Content
Chapter 6. Appraisal of Freud's Further Arguments for the Emergence
of Unadulterated Repressions Under "Free" Association
Chapter 7. Remarks on Post-Freudian Defenses of the Fundamental
Tenets of Psychoanalysis
Chapter 8. Can the Repression Etiology of Psychoneurosis Be Tested
Retrospectively?
Part III. Epilogue
Chapter 9. The Method of Free Association and the Future Appraisal
of Psychoanalysis
Chapter 10. Critique of Freud's Final Defense of the Probative
Value of Data from the Couch: The Pseudo-Convergence of Clinical
Findings
Chapter 11. Coda on Exegetical Myth-Making in Karl Popper's
Indictment of the Clinical Validation of Psychoanalysis
Bibliography
Indexes
Name Index
Subject Index
Adolf Grunbaum (born May 15, 1923, Cologne, Germany) is a philosopher of science and a critic of psychoanalysis. He is also well known as a critic of Karl Popper's philosophy of science. He became the first permanent Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh in 1960. In that year, he also became the founding Director of that University's Center for Philosophy of Science, serving as Director until 1978. Currently, at the University of Pittsburgh, besides being the Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy of Science, he is Co-Chairman of its Center for Philosophy of Science (since 1978), Research Professor of Psychiatry (since 1979), and Primary Research Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (since 2006).
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