Narrative Truth and Historical Truth: Meaning and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis

by Donald P. Spence, Robert S. Wallerstein M.D. (Foreword)

“Jam-packed with clinical, theoretical, investigative, methodological, philosophical, literary, and conceptual sophistication and richness. . .” ―Philip Rubovits-Seitz, M.D., Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Donald Spence's book, Meaning and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis , is so disturbing and so revolutionary, in the sense of essaying so radical and fundamental a critique of our most central clinical and theoretical operating assumptions.

Genres: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Nonfiction, Language

324 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1982

Reviews

[Eliezer Sneiderman · Rating 4 out of 5]

A companion to Thomas Kuhn from the field of psychology. How do our expectations shape our understanding of truth?

[Jorge Rodighiero · Rating 3 out of 5]

I fully agree with what this book says about meaning and interpretation in psychoanalysis.
However, it could have been a 5 pages essay instead of a 300 pages book.

[Roy Kenagy]

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