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The psychoanalytic theory of addiction: A reevaluation by use of a statistical model

The psychoanalytic theory of addiction: A reevaluation by use of a statistical model TT THE PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY OF ADDICTION: A REEVALUATION BY USE OF A STATISTICAL MODEL Charles D. Kaplan and Michael Wogan The theories and methods of psychoanalysis have had a profound influence on the other human sciences. 1-3 However, movement in the other direction--from other human sciences to psychoanalysis--has normally been met with resistance. As Szasz has observed, this resistance may be attributed to the success of psychoanalysis in disseminating its theory and method to other sciences. 4 In a struggle to retain their distinctiveness, psycho- analysts have refined their clinical techniques and defined them as the psychoanalytic method. This methodological resistance has had a negative effect on the development and evaluation of psychoanalytic theory. Thus, Sears can write (p. 133): •.. few investigators feel free to accept Freud's statements at face value• The reason lies in the same factor that makes psychoanalysis a bad science--its method• Psychoanalysis relies upon techniques that do not admit repetition of observations, that have no self-evident or denotative validity, and that are tinctured to an unknown degree with the observer's own suggestions• These difficulties may not seriously interfere with therapy, but when the method is used for uncovering psychological facts that are required to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
1978 The Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01253588
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Abstract

TT THE PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY OF ADDICTION: A REEVALUATION BY USE OF A STATISTICAL MODEL Charles D. Kaplan and Michael Wogan The theories and methods of psychoanalysis have had a profound influence on the other human sciences. 1-3 However, movement in the other direction--from other human sciences to psychoanalysis--has normally been met with resistance. As Szasz has observed, this resistance may be attributed to the success of psychoanalysis in disseminating its theory and method to other sciences. 4 In a struggle to retain their distinctiveness, psycho- analysts have refined their clinical techniques and defined them as the psychoanalytic method. This methodological resistance has had a negative effect on the development and evaluation of psychoanalytic theory. Thus, Sears can write (p. 133): •.. few investigators feel free to accept Freud's statements at face value• The reason lies in the same factor that makes psychoanalysis a bad science--its method• Psychoanalysis relies upon techniques that do not admit repetition of observations, that have no self-evident or denotative validity, and that are tinctured to an unknown degree with the observer's own suggestions• These difficulties may not seriously interfere with therapy, but when the method is used for uncovering psychological facts that are required to

Journal

The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Dec 1, 1978

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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