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,
Pushpa Misra 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.
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