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Psychoanalysis has been variously referred to as a metapsychology, an ism, an art, an esoteric cult, a doctrine, a theology, a demonology, and a therapeutic technique. It has been characterized as un-, pre-, proto-, pseudo-, anti-, and genuinely scientific, and its precepts have been given the status of laws, constructs, paradigms, beliefs, canons, hypotheses, or convenient fictions. Books, conferences, and even careers have been devoted to the study of the scientific merit and heuristic explanatory power of psychoanalysis.
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Ettin, M.F. (1984). Sound Theories and Theory Soundings. In: Royce, J.R., Mos, L.P. (eds) Annals of Theoretical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9191-4_18
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