Abstract
Comments on S. Epstein's theory of the integration of the cognitive and the psychodynamic unconscious. Epstein indulged in a speculative synthesis between the growing body of evidence that irrational processes influence a substantial number of normal human behaviors on the one hand and psychoanalytic theory on the other. This approach appears to be misguided, at best resting on a misunderstanding of the literature on cognitive psychology and at worst prolonging psychology's dependence on unfalsifiable hypotheses to account for the apparent complexity of human behavior.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 799-800 |
| Journal | American Psychologist |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 1995 |
Disciplines
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
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