• Psychoanalysis, Science and Grunbaum
    Dissertation, New York University. 1991.
    Grunbaum has charged that psychoanalysis is totally devoid of scientific grounds. Specifically, he claims that the repression etiology, the most fundamental tenet of psychoanalytic theory, is supported by insubstantial evidence and faulty reasoning. He levels two criticisms against Freud and Breuer's ground breaking claim: The therapies of the cathartic method and the psychoanalytic method were ineffective; any apparent progress was due to an inadvertent placebo effect. Even if the therapies wer…Read more