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Karl Popper says psychoanalysis is a pseudo-science others deny this. What is Popper’s conception of pseudo-science and why docs he hold Freud’s psychoanalysis to be an example of one? What would it take to show that Freud’s theory is pseudo-scientific?
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Cioffi, F. (1985). Psychoanalysis, Pseudo-Science and Testability. In: Currie, G., Musgrave, A. (eds) Popper and the Human Sciences. Nijhoff International Philosophy Series, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5093-1_2
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