PRECISION IN PSYCHOANALYSIS

N. S. LEHRMANAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 116, Number 12

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.12.1097

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Scientific precision has far too often been consciously excluded from classical psychoanalysis, because Freud rejected it. In consequence, classical psychoanalysis has assumed many of the trappings of a religion, and lost many of the essential characteristics of a science. Two anti-scientific trends in the field, defensive secrecy and arrogant "elitism," seem to have occurred in part as a result of perpetuation of this lack of precision.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 116 • Number 12 • June 1960

Pages: 1097 - 1103

PubMed: 14415410

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Published in print: June 1960

Published online: 1 April 2006

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N. S. LEHRMAN

Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N. Y.

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