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The volume by Grünbaum includes an introduction by Philip Holzman and ten essays by Grünbaum based on previously published materials and lectures. Over half of the monograph is a sequel to the author's 1984 book, The Foundations of Psychoanalysis. Some of the chapters respond to critics of his earlier work, Wallerstein, Edelson and Strenger. Other chapters critique hermeneutics and Popper's declarations on psychoanalysis as non-science. The volume in toto presents Grünbaum's ideas on the principal issues in establishing the validity of the clinical theory of psychoanalysis. He begins with the failure of clinical data to support Freud's cardinal causal hypotheses. He then questions the reliance of psychoanalysis on clinical data to claim validation of its theories.
Grünbaum agrees in principle with Edelson, Mackay and Strenger, each writing independently on the causal role of unconscious processes, when he writes that “hidden motives cry out for careful scrutiny” (p. 3). His concern is with the “shortage of psychoanalytically sophisticated scientists who can make research use of the ‘privileged