Product Description: Is psychoanalysis knowledge? Is psychoanalysis a science, or is it hermeneutics? Can clinical material be considered research data? Psychoanalysis is ambiguous about whether it is about meaning or about truth, and the relations between these two compelling experiences...read more

Product Description: A survey of every major study of the efficacy of psychoanalytic treatment. The authors critically analyze the studies and their findings, discuss the issues that have been and should be explored in such studies, and examine the problems of conducting research into psychoanalytic outcomes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Studies of psychoanalytic treatment processes and outcomes are critical to the long-term health of psychoanalysis for two reasons: first, they can demonstrate that psychodynamic therapies have measurable positive effects, despite the assertions of the critics to the contrary...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As psychoanalysis approaches its second century, it seems no closer to being a science than when Freud first invented the discipline. All the clinical experience of the past hundred years, Donald Spence tells us in this trenchant book, has not overcome a tendency to decouple theory from evidence...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive guide to conducting and understanding psychodynamic research and incorporating findings into clinical practice sifts through state-of-the-art research to show how, why and if psychotherapy works. Contributors include practitioners in psychodynamic psychotherapy, such as Hans Strupp, Otto Kernberg, Donald Spence, Robert Wallerstein and Arnold Cooper...read more

Product Description: In this landmark volume-- already acclaimed as "certain to become a milestone in the history of psychoanalysis and ego psychology"-- Joseph Weiss' theory of the psychotherapeutic process is presented and supported by the systematic, quantitative research carried out by Sampson, Weiss, and the Mount Zion Psychotherapy Research Group...read more

Discusses the possibility of psychoanalysis being a true science, and considers single subject research, objectivity, neural science, experimental methodology, the usefulness of psychoanalytic data, and hypothesis testing