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Dear Book Reviews Editor
David Smith, in his latest correspondence in our ‘Grunbaum debate’, observes that he and I ‘are both concerned with the philosophical underpinnings of psychoanalysis and the intellectual status of psychoanalytic claims about mental life’ (British Journal of Psychotherapy 11(3): 491-3). I will focus on the second half of the concern for the time being and in the process refer to the recent book by Leopold Bellak: Psychoanalysis as a Science (1993). I might address the philosophical (specifically, hermeneutic-phenomenological) issues another time.
Readers of the Journal would know that Bellak is the experimental ego-psychologist