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The relationship existing between science and psychoanalysis has long been tense, critical, even hostile. Andr? Haynal addresses this relationship by examining three questions: how is psychoanalytic "knowledge" established? what methodology and epistemology underlie psychoanalytic theory? and what are the historical circumstances that have shaped psychoanalysis?Haynal is familiar with the full spectrum of analytic thought and begins with a systematic discussion of analytic theory. The second part of the book covers a series of historical topics and includes discussions of Freud and his relations with his followers. A chapter on Freud and his "favorite disciple," Sandor Ferenczi, is an engrossing account of the complex intellectual and personal connection the two men shared.
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Andre E. Haynal, born 1930, studied philosophy and psychology in Budapest, followed by medicine in Zurich . He trained successively in neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry. He is currently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva. He has been practicing psychoanalysis for more than twenty -five years. He is a former President of the Swiss Psychoana lytic Society (IPA) and a former Vice- President of the European Psychoanalytic Federation. He has twice spent a year as a visiting professor at Stanford University in California. His main interests are reflected in his books: Depression and Creativity, Parental Loss and Achievement (with Eisenstadt et al), The Technique at Issue: Controversies in Psychoanalysis, from Freud and Ferenczi to Michael Balint, and Fanaticism, all appear · ing in several languages. He is currently the main scientific editor of the Freud / Ferenczi Correspondence.
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Acknowledgements: For excerpta: reprtnted by permission of the publishers from TIle CUnlca.l Diary oj Sandor Ferencz:1. edited by Judith Dupont. Cambridge. M" y.: HIU"VIU"d University Press, Copyright CI 1985 by Payot. Parts. by acrMt.gement with Mark Paterson; C 1988 by Nicola Jackson for the English translaUon. For excerpta: reprinted by pennisslon of the publishers (rom The Freud- Ferencz( Corresporul.eru":e, edited by Eva Brabant, Emit Faiuder, and Patrtzla Glanplerl· Deutsch. under the supervision of Andre H"ynal. Cambridge, MllSs.: Harvard Univers ity Press; by lUTW"l8ement with MllJ"k Paterson and Judith Dupont. To be published In 1993-95. For excerpts from : Freud, SigInund: The Freud/Jung LeUers. TIte Correspond· ence Between Sigmund F't"eud and Carl Gus tcwJungrw. McGuire, Ed.). CopyT1ght C 1988 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Preas.
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Ubnry of Coap._ CatalotiDC·ID.PubUcatioD o.ta Haynal, Andre. IPsychanalyse et sciences face Ii face. Englishl PsychoanalysIs and the sciences ; e pistemology-his tory / Andre Haynal. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and Index, ISBN 0-520-08299-0 1. Psychoanalysts-Philosophy, 2 , Sclen~Methodology ,