Criticisms of Psychoanalysis

• Cioffi, Frank, Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience, Open Court Pub. Co., 1998
• Crews, Frederick and his critics Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute New York Review of Books Publications 1997
• Review by Sarah Boxer, Flogging Freud, New York Times, August 10, 1997
• Review by David Futrelle, Analyzing Freud: Two books scrutinize the style and substance of the father of psychoanalysis, Chicago Tribune, December 20, 1998
• Crews, Frederick, Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend,  Viking Press, 1998
• Review by Thomas Lewis, The Freudians Slip, San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, September 13, 1998
• Derrida, Jacques, Peggy Kamuf, Pascale-Anne Brault, Resistances of Psychoanalysis, Stanford University Press, 1998
• Dolnick, Edward, Madness on the Couch: Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis, Simon & Schuster, 1998
• Review by Paul R. McHugh, Baltimore Sun, Aug 24 1998
• Review by David Brown, In the Final Analysis,  The Washington Post, Sunday, November 15, 1998
• Review by Derek Bickerton, Talking Cure?, New York Times, November 22, 1998
• Review by Thomas Lewis, The Docs Must Be Crazy, San Fransisco Chronicle, December 6, 1998
• Edelson, Marshall Psychoanalysis: A Theory in Crisis University of Chicago Press 1990
• Review by Robert S. Wallerstein, How Can We Know If It's True?, New York Times, Sunday February 26, 1989
• Erwin, Edward, A Final Accounting: Philosophical and Empirical Issues in Freudian Psychology, MIT Press, 1995
• Review by Cioffi, Frank,  Philosophy July 1997, v72, n281, p435(14)
• Farrell, John, Freud's Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion, New York Univ Press, 1998
• Fisher, Seymour, The Scientific Credibility of Freud's Theories and Therapy, Columbia Univ Press, 1985
• Forrester, John Dispatches from the Freud Wars: Psychoanalysis and Its Passions Harvard Univ Press, 1997
• Chapter One of Dispatches from the Freud Wars
• Review By Claire Douglas, It's All in Their Minds The Washington Post Sunday, August 10, 1997
• Review by Sarah Boxer, Flogging Freud, New York Times, August 10, 1997
• Review by Sander Gilman,  The Bulletin of the History of Medicine 72.2, Summer 1998
• Grunbaum, Adolf The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique (Pittsburgh Series in Philosophy and History of Science) Univ California Press 1985
• Grunbaum, Adolf and Philip S. Holzman Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis: A Study in the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (Psychological Issues, Monograph No. 61) Intl Universities Press, 1993
• Review by Flanagan, Owen, Times Literary Supplement Oct 29 1993, n4726, p3(2)
• Review by Kurzweil, Edith, Society May-June 1994, v31, n4, p81(4)
• Review by Esman, Aaron H., American Journal of Psychiatry Feb 1995, v152, n2, p283(1)
• Review by Kitcher, Patricia, Philosophy of Science March 1995, v62, n1, p166(2)
• Review by Ruse, Michael, Free Inquiry Fall 1995, v15, n4, p54(2)
• Review by Laor, Nathaniel,  Philosophy of the Social Sciences Sept 1996, v26, n3, p432(4)
• Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff Final Analysis: the Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst Harperperennial Library 1991
• Review by Tavris, Carol, Breaking Away From the Cult, The New York Times Book Review Oct 21 1990, p7, col 1
• Review by Adelson, Joseph, Commentary Dec 1990, v90, n6, p60(3)
• Review by Turner, Jenny,  New Statesman & Society May 17 1991, v4, n151, p35(2)
• Review by Dinnage, Rosemary, TLS. Times Literary Supplement May 17 1991, n4598, p22(1)
• Review by Meredith, Sheena, New Scientist June 22 1991, v130, n1774, p48(1)
• Review by Charney, Michael L., The New England Journal of Medicine June 20 1991, v324, n25, p1819(2)
• Review by Shepherd, Michael,  Nature Nov 28 1991, v354, n6351, p331(2)
• Review by Self, David, Times Educational Supplement Sept 25 1992, n3978, p8R(1)
• Politzer, Georges and Maurice Apprey (Translator) Critique of the Foundations of Psychology: The Psychology of Psychoanalysis (1928) Duquesne Univ Press, 1994
• Torrey, E. Fuller Freudian Fraud: the Malignant Effect of Freud's Theory on American Thought and Culture HarperPerennial, New York, 1993.
• Review by Wollheim, Richard, The New York Times Book Review June 28 1992, p7, col 1
• Review by Kakutani, Michiko, The New York Times July 14 1992, v141, pB4(N), pC15(L), col 3
• Review by Thomas Laqueur, Scapegoating Sigmund, L.A. Times, Sunday, July 19, 1992
• Review by Adelson, Joseph, National Review August 3 1992, v44, n15, p39(2)
• Review by Balsam, R.H., CHOICE Jan 1993, v30, n5, p887(1)
• Review by Hines, Terence, Skeptical Inquirer Spring 1993, v17, n3, p317(2)
• Review by Goldsmith, Gary, The New England Journal of Medicine April 15 1993, v328, n15, p1131(2)
• Review by Stone, Alan A., American Journal of Psychiatry May 1993, v150, n5, p827(2)
• Webster, Richard Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis HarperCollins, London, 1995; New York, Basic Books, 1996.
• Review by Turner, Trevor, Times Educational Supplement Sept 22 1995, n4134, pS11(1)
• Review by McLynn, Frank, New Statesman & Society Sept 22 1995, v8, n371, p31(1)
• Review by Swales, Peter J., Nature Nov 2 1995, v378, n6552, p107(2)
• Review by Torrey, E. Fuller, National Review Dec 31 1995, v47, n25, p43(2)
• Review by Balsam, R.H., CHOICE Feb 1996, v33, n6, p1026(1)
• Review by Johnson, Bob, New Scientist April 27 1996, v150, n2027, p49(1)
• Review by Sarah Boxer, Flogging Freud, New York Times, August 10, 1997
Updated 10/05/1999