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Psychoanalytic Disagreements in Context

Author(s) : Dale Boesky

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Boesky tackles the key epistemological issue in contemporary psychoanalytic theoretical debate and its relation to clinical evidence in our search for sound knowledge and effective therapy. By brilliantly exploiting the idea of rules of contextualization, Boesky illuminates the ways in which theory-testing based on clinical evidence can fail because of undeclared, yet crucial, disagreements about what counts as evidence. This book provides a new compass for steering a course beyond chronic controversy toward knowledge.
- Charles Hanly, president-elect, International Psychoanalytic Association

"Contemporary psychoanalysis is marked by a multitude of theories, and with them, disputes about theory. Dale Boesky finds that much of the time when we disagree vigorously we are actually talking past each other. Boesky offers the outline of a method of comparative psychoanalysis that will separate real disagreements from noisy misunderstandings, and as a result will allow us to compare the ways in which different analysts, using different theories, approach clinical material and reach clinical inferences. He illustrates his argument with case material, both his own and others, and confronts the major questions of our science. In Psychoanalytic Disagreements in Context, he does not provide us with answers, but instead offers a systematic strategy for identifying critical differences and assembles the relevant data that help to resolve them."
- Robert Michels, M.D., Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, Cornell University; supervising and training analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; Joint Editor-in-Chief, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

About the Author
Dr Boesky is the past Editor-in-Chief of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.