The perennial interest in psychoanalysis shows no signs of abating and the longevity of psychoanalytic theory is seen in the varied extensions and elaborations of Freudian thinking in the fields of neuroscience and cognitive theory. Nevertheless, the scientific standing of psychoanalysis has long been questioned and developments in the fields of the philosophy of science and psychology require a fresh assessment of the scientific standing of psychoanalysis. While there are a range of views on the topic of whether psychoanalysis is in fact scientific, any satisfactory approach to understanding mind and behaviour requires an approach that is at once both philosophic and scientific. Accordingly, to even approach the question regarding the scientific nature of psychoanalysis, a foundation comprising a sophisticated conceptual and philosophical framework is required. This volume represents the junction where philosophy, science, and psychoanalysis meet and presents arguments critical and supportive of the scientific standing of psychoanalysis.

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ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION — Vesa Talvitie, Linda A. W. Brakel, and Simon Boag
CHAPTER ONE ritique of Psychoanalysis — Adolf Grünbaum
CHAPTER TWO Psychoanalysis and philosophy of science: basic evidence — Edward Erwin
CHAPTER THREE Critique of Grünbaum’s “Critique of psychoanalysis” — Linda A. W. Brakel
CHAPTER FOUR From scientific explanations to micropsychology: what should psychoanalytic theories be like? — Vesa Talvitie
CHAPTER FIVE Psychoanalysis and philosophy of science: reply to Brakel and Talvitie — Edward Erwin
CHAPTER SIX Two fundamental problems for philosophical psychoanalysis — Linda A. W. Brakel
CHAPTER SEVEN The scientific status of psychoanalysis revisited — Agnes Petocz
CHAPTER EIGHT Freud and Wittgenstein in the cuckoo’s nest — Thomas Wallgren
CHAPTER NINE Psychoanalytic research with or without the psyche? Some remarks on the intricacies of clinical research — Anna Ursula Dreher
CHAPTER TEN Repression, defence, and the psychology of science — Simon Boag
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