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Does contemporary cognitive psychology favor or oppose psychoanalytic theory?

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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 languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)799-800
JournalAmerican Psychologist
Volume50
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1995

Disciplines

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences

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