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Psychoanalysis and Psychology

A Comparison of Methods and Objectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

A. Kardiner*
Affiliation:
Columbia University

Extract

Psychoanalysis is the name of a practical psychology, which seeks to make intelligible the aberrant phenomena in the stream of human experience which often are coincident with suffering and ineffectuality. In addition, it has another distinguishing characteristic in that it seeks to create a teachable method for the systematic treatment of these disturbances in adaptation. The application of scientific method to a psychology with these objectives created problems which are unique. These problems stem from the nature of the subject matter with which it deals and the particular objectives of the scientific maneuvers. Its subject matter constitutes material which no other psychology has seen fit to deal with and the objective, namely, therapy, is one which imposes upon this scientific discipline a social responsibility.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1941

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References

page 235 note ∗ See Carol C. Pratt, The Logic of Modern Psychology. MacMillan, 1939.

page 244 note ∗ Kardiner, A. The Individual and His Society. Columbia Univ. Press, 1939.