Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc

Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc by Malcolm Macmillan. paperback edition. ISBN: 0884287634628.

foreword by Frederick Crews Psychoanalysis: science or belief system? Since its initial publication this critique of Freuds methods for gathering and evaluating evidence has become a classic in Freud scholarship. Malcolm Macmillans exhaustive analysis of Freuds personality theory describes the logical and other assumptions on which Freuds work was based and shows how these assumptions interacted with his clinical observations to produce all-embracing but faulty methods for gathering and evaluating evidence. Macmillan provides a meticulous account of the historical evolution of Freuds thought and its background in Freuds contacts with the books and people that influenced him and evaluates the entirety of the Freudian system. Included is a compilation of major criticisms of the methodology and assumptions of Freudian theory and a new comprehensive afterword by the author surveying the relevant literature published since 1989. (cloth published by Elsevier-North Holland in 1991)