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Episode 7: Is Psychoanalysis Scientific?

Lives of the Unconscious. A Podcast on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

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The Criticism of Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis has also contributed to the field of experimental and empirical psychology. But equating science with the methodology of the natural sciences is definitely questionable, he says. In physics, surely the leading discipline in the exact natural sciences, this object is first and foremost in animate nature. The motion of the moon is so predictable that one can calculate its orbit,. launch a rocket straight for it, and land on it.

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