Philosophy, Science, and Psychoanalysis by Talvitie Vesa Boag Simon Brakel Linda A.W

Author:Talvitie, Vesa, Boag, Simon, Brakel, Linda A.W.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Karnac Books

Category Five: psychoanalysis is unscientific because it is based on methodologically defective procedures, some of which make it unfalsifiable in practice

This “umbrella” category covers three different procedures. The first (already mentioned) is the use of the conventionalist stratagem to make the theory unfalsifiable in practice (e.g., Cioffi, 1970). The second is the reliance on clinical data, which are “fatally contaminated” either by suggestion or by a priori theory-dependence (e.g., Crews, 1993; Grünbaum, 1993a; Macmillan, 1991). The third is the use of the technique of free association to identify causes, a method that either involves invalid reasoning (e.g., Grünbaum, 1993a, 2008; Wittgenstein, 1932–1933) or is derived from a faulty conception of causality (e.g., Macmillan, 1991). I shall consider each of these in turn.

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