Psychoanalysis--A Theory in CrisisMarshall Edelson identifies the core theory of psychoanalysis and shows how free association and the case study method can provide rational grounds for believing its clinical inferences about the causal role of unconscious sexual fantasies. "Dr. Edelson has committed himself with gusto, persistence and intelligence [to] a spirited defense of psychoanalysis as science—not necessarily as it is, but as it can be in the best of hands as it should be. . . . It is a defense that I hope can resonate strongly in psychoanalytic ranks. It is also a message that I hope would receive a warm reception in that wider intellectual world where ideas matter and where enlightened social policy and cultural cachet are fostered."—Robert Wallerstein, New York Times Book Review |
Contents
Psychic Reality | 3 |
Language and Dreams | 21 |
Psychoanalysis and Other Scientific Disciplines | 62 |
Psychoanalytic Interpretation | 78 |
Anxiety | 89 |
Psychoanalytic Theory | 102 |
Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience | 122 |
Applied Psychoanalysis | 157 |
The Case Study Method in Psychoanalysis | 229 |
The Hermeneutic Turn and the Single Case Study in Psychoanalysis | 231 |
The Evidential Value of the Psychoanalysts Clinical Data1 | 268 |
Causal Explanation in Science and in Psychoanalysis Implications for Writing a Case Study | 278 |
Some Reflections on Responses to Adolf Grunbaums Critique of the Empirical Foundations of Psychoanalysis | 309 |
Rational Grounds for Believing Clinical Inferences in Psychoanalysis | 319 |
Bibliography | 365 |
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Imagination Fantasy and Defense | 172 |
Psychoanalytic Contributions to a Theory of Sexuality | 193 |
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