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In the margins of scientific dialogue: Evart Van Dieren contra psychoanalysis
Author(s) -
Bos Jaap
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/jhbs.10081
Subject(s) - psychoanalysis , philosophy , psychology , epistemology
Evart Van Dieren (1861–1940), a Dutch general practitioner who had a passionate aversion against psychoanalysis, wrote two particularly polemical books contra Freud but nevertheless did not succeed in generating much response. In this paper, some of his objections against psychoanalysis are briefly examined and compared with some present day arguments against Freud by Grünbaum and Crews, with the purpose of finding an answer to the question: What does it take to be a successful or unsuccessful critic? © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.