Freud and the question of pseudoscience
For three decades Frank Coiffi has been at the center of the debate over Freud's legacy and the legitimacy of psychoanalysis. Coiffi has given startling demonstrations that, in one area after another, Freud's accounts of the development of his theories are untruthful. But Coiffi's even more impressive achievement has been to scrupulously distinguish the many different, often equivocal, assertions made by psychoanalysis, thus laying bare the mechanism of its rhetorical conjuring tricks
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