Fact and Fantasy in Freudian Theory (RLE: Freud)Originally published in 1972, this second edition in 1981 was fully revised and updated to cover recent developments in the field at the time. Fact and Fantasy in Freudian Theory was written to answer many questions and criticisms surrounding psychoanalysis. How much, if any, of Freudian theory is verifiable according to the usual criteria of scientific enquiry? Much work had been carried out at the time to discover which parts of Freudian theory are verifiable and which insupportable by experiment. In this book Dr Kline surveys this vast body of work. He takes, one by one, the central postulates of Freudian psychology and discusses the experiments which have been performed to test them. He scrutinizes each test, examines its methodology and its findings and weighs up its value. For some of the theories, it will be seen, there is no evidence whatsoever; for others, on the other hand, there is impressive and sometimes incontrovertible experimental support – for example, for the theory of repression. This work will continue to be an invaluable, highly detailed reference work for those involved with Freud’s work, and a book of great interest to those concerned with the method of psychological enquiry in general. |
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Results 1-5 of 88
... correlation between positive results and methodological excellence ! Other projective techniques are open to similar criticisms but their results have been used where evidence for the validity of the particular score was presented . If ...
... correlations of personality and infantile sexual development were the first discovery of psychoanalytic characterology . Adult personality is therefore related to infantile sexuality . The extent to which oral erotism , for example , is ...
... correlations can be reliably estimated . It is also essential that reliable and valid measuring instruments be used . Thus clinical impressions and rating scales in general carry less weight as evidence than personality inventories and ...
... correlations . The rating scales were reliable ( mean split - half r was 0.56 ) but the only evidence for their validity was face - validity- the items appeared to refer to oral traits . Facevalidity is not considered to be satisfactory ...
... correlations were tetrachoric . Guilford ( 1958 ) has shown that these have a standard error about twice as large as that of product— moment correlations and that they are unduly affected by the evenness of the dichotomy . This means ...
Contents
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4 Psychometric studies of personality | 48 |
5 The relation of psychosexual personality syndromes to infantile experiences | 68 |
6 The Oedipus and castration complexes | 130 |
7 The structure of the mind | 169 |
8 The mechanisms of defence | 195 |
10 Psychoanalytic theory of neurosis psychosis and other emotional and psychogenic disturbances | 325 |
11 The effects of psychoanalytic therapy | 389 |
12 The neoFreudians and other analytic psychologists | 407 |
13 The status of Freudian theory in the light of the evidence | 432 |
Bibliography | 448 |
Name index | 495 |
General index | 505 |
9 Freudian dream theory | 263 |