Freud's foes psychoanalysis, science, and resistance /

• Main Author: Jacobsen, Kurt, 1949-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009.
• Series: Polemics (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)
• Subjects: Freud, Sigmund, > 1856-1939.; Psychoanalysis > History.; PSYCHOLOGY > Psychoanalysis. > Movements; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary

Freud's Foes, the latest title in the Polemics series, addresses Freud's fiercest contemporary critics. Kurt Jacobsen defends psychoanalysis, while accepting that it has inherent flaws. He argues that although today's "foes" pose as daring savants, they are only the latest w...

Table of Contents:

• Science and the psyche
• Birth pangs
• Psychoanalysis versus cultural lesions
• Medicine men and invisible wounds
• Biological veneers and corporate elixirs
• Short cuts to tall tales.