Freud and Psychoanalysis : A Guide to the Debates

A survey of Freudian psychiatry, its underlying theories and techniques, and the ongoing controversies and debates about discrepancies in his methodology.

Has there ever been a more controversial figure in psychoanalysis than Sigmund Freud?

Portrayed by many as the most mesmerizing figure in the science, yet vilified by others as no more than a quack, Freud's leap of the imagination still succeeds to fascinate us.

He claimed that his work revolutionized psychology. Yet Freud has often been disparaged and attacked for his theories and techniques of psychoanalysis.

This work looks at psychoanalysis as a means of investigating and explaining behaviour, focusing on Freud's methods of investigation, the types of data he found, and the relation between those data and the theoretical notions he derived from them.