Research Catalog

Title

Building out into the dark : theory and observation in science and psychoanalysis / Robert Caper.

Author

Caper, Robert

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, c2009.

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Details

Description

ix, 107 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Many psychoanalysts, beginning with Freud, have considered their discipline a science. In this book, Caper examines this claim and investigates the relationship of theory to observation in both philosophy and the experimental sciences and explores how these observations differ from those made in psychoanalytic interpretation." "Building Out into the Dark offers a thoughtful consideration of the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge and how it is gained. The book's accessible and concise style makes it a useful introductory resource for students studying psychoanalysis, for psychotherapists who are curious about the distinction between psychoanalysis and other forms of therapy as well as those interested in placing psychoanalysis in the context of current cultural and intellectual developments." --Book Jacket.

Subject

• Psychoanalysis
• Observation (Scientific method)
• Psychoanalytic Theory
• Psychoanalysis
• Observation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-103) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Psychoanalysis and science -- Psychoanalysis and science : rules and games -- The origins of psychoanalysis in the art of medicine -- Psychoanalytic observation -- Room for doubt -- Psychoanalytic reasoning : finding the context -- Terror and the archaic superego -- Psychoanalysis, the individual, and the group -- Psychoanalytic work.

ISBN

• 9780415466806 (hbk)
• 0415466806 (hbk)
• 9780415466813 (pbk)
• 0415466814 (pbk)

LCCN

^^2008026169

OCLC

227918189

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library