Bøger af Adolf Grunbaum

Das Buch enth{lt: 1. Die umfassende Diskussion zwischen demAutor von 'Die Grundlagen der Psychoanalyse' und seinenKritikern. 2. Eine }ber den Originaltext hinausgehendeKritik des Autors an der Psychoanalyse. 3. Eine Abhandlung}ber den 'Placebobegriff in Medizin und Psychiatrie'

This study is a philosophical critique of the foundations of Sigmund Freuds 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.

In publishing this work among the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, we hope to contribute to and encourage that broad tradition of natural philosophy which is marked by the close collaboration of philoso phers and scientists.