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- As psychoanalysis approaches its second century it seems no closer to being a science than when Freud first invented the discipline. All the clinical experience of the past hundred years, Donald Spence tells us in this trenchant book, has not overcome a tendency to decouple theory from evidence. Deprived of its observational base, theory operates more like shared fantasy
- In support of this provocative claim, Spence mounts a powerful critique of the way psychoanalysis functions - as a clinical method and as a scholarly discipline or "science." In the process, he prescribes an antidote for the uncontrolled rhetoric that currently governs psychoanalytic practice
- This reliance on rhetoric is the problem Spence identifies, and he attributes the troubling lack of progress in psychoanalysis to its outmoded method of data collection and its preference for fanciful argument over hard fact
- Writing to Jung in 1911, Freud admitted that he "was not at all cut out to be an inductive researcher - I was entirely meant for intuition." His intuitive approach led him to retreat from the traditional Baconian principles of inductive investigation and to move toward a more Aristotelian approach that emphasized choice specimens and favorite examples, played down replication, and depended on arguments based on authority
- Detailing this development, with particular attention to the role of self-analysis in the Freudian myth and the evidential drawbacks of the case study genre, Spence shows how psychoanalysis was set on its present course and how rhetorical maneuvers have taken the place of evidence
- With this diagnosis, Spence offers a remedy - an example of the sort of empirical research that can transform clinical wisdom into useful knowledge. His book holds out the hope that, by challenging the traditions and diminishing the power of rhetoric, psychoanalysis can remain a creative enterprise, but one based on a solid scientific foundation
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The rhetorical voice of psychoanalysis : displacement of evidence by theory
- Title
- The rhetorical voice of psychoanalysis
- Title remainder
- displacement of evidence by theory
- Statement of responsibility
- Donald P. Spence
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- As psychoanalysis approaches its second century it seems no closer to being a science than when Freud first invented the discipline. All the clinical experience of the past hundred years, Donald Spence tells us in this trenchant book, has not overcome a tendency to decouple theory from evidence. Deprived of its observational base, theory operates more like shared fantasy
- In support of this provocative claim, Spence mounts a powerful critique of the way psychoanalysis functions - as a clinical method and as a scholarly discipline or "science." In the process, he prescribes an antidote for the uncontrolled rhetoric that currently governs psychoanalytic practice
- This reliance on rhetoric is the problem Spence identifies, and he attributes the troubling lack of progress in psychoanalysis to its outmoded method of data collection and its preference for fanciful argument over hard fact
- Writing to Jung in 1911, Freud admitted that he "was not at all cut out to be an inductive researcher - I was entirely meant for intuition." His intuitive approach led him to retreat from the traditional Baconian principles of inductive investigation and to move toward a more Aristotelian approach that emphasized choice specimens and favorite examples, played down replication, and depended on arguments based on authority
- Detailing this development, with particular attention to the role of self-analysis in the Freudian myth and the evidential drawbacks of the case study genre, Spence shows how psychoanalysis was set on its present course and how rhetorical maneuvers have taken the place of evidence
- With this diagnosis, Spence offers a remedy - an example of the sort of empirical research that can transform clinical wisdom into useful knowledge. His book holds out the hope that, by challenging the traditions and diminishing the power of rhetoric, psychoanalysis can remain a creative enterprise, but one based on a solid scientific foundation
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Spence, Donald P
- Dewey number
- 150.19/52/01
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RC506
- LC item number
- .S663 1994
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- 1994 E-188
- WM 460
- NLM item number
- S744r 1994
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Psychoanalysis
- Psychoanalysis
- Science
- Freudian Theory
- Psychoanalysis
- Science
- Psychoanalyse
- Retorica
- Psychanalyse
- Psychanalyse
- Label
- The rhetorical voice of psychoanalysis : displacement of evidence by theory, Donald P. Spence
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index
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- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 28710914
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 228 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674768741
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 93006344
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)28710914
- (WaOLN)1135211
- Label
- The rhetorical voice of psychoanalysis : displacement of evidence by theory, Donald P. Spence
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 28710914
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 228 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674768741
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 93006344
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)28710914
- (WaOLN)1135211
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