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I.Experimentalists and Therapists: The Dynamics of a Conflict Situation. T. R. Miles. Pp. 1-6.
Many experimental psychologists and psychoanalysts continue to find themselves in mutual opposition as they are unable to divorce their observations of human behavior from the emotional investment in their own discipline. Interdisciplinary attempts to validate hypotheses become ideological controversies with disregard for the internal, intracontextual agreements that may be reached in the course of ordinary work. The author makes a plea for recognition of the emotional overlay beclouding issues of validation and for continued efforts to take these differences seriously.
II.On the Character of Psychodynamic Discourse. B. A. Farrell. Pp. 7-13.
Psychologists and psychoanalysts alike are hampered by a tendency to view hypothetico-deductive systems as the only rational science. Although the clinical interpretations derived from daily work in psychoanalysis may not reach the level of satisfactory proof required by experimental psychology, each discourse makes progress within its own framework of logic and evidence. The insights into behavior gained from psychoanalytic interpretation should inhibit the immediate impulse to restrict our scientific development to the hypothetico-deductive operations in current fashion.
III.On the 'Clinical' and 'Objective' Approaches to Psychodynamic Material. D. H. Malan. Pp. 15-21.
Both clinical and experimental approaches to psychoanalysis have advantages