| Abstract: | Offers the author's recall of a personal exchange with Freud when Rosenzweig was a young psychologist, a memory prompted by the article by L. T. Benjamin, Jr. and D. N. Dixon (see record 83-32709) which discussed Freud's characteristics as a correspondent in general. In letters on 2 separate occasions, the author remembers that Freud made a similar negative response to any attempts to explore psychoanalytic theory by laboratory methods. This exchange clearly underscored Freud's distrust of, if not opposition to, experimental approaches to the validation of his clinically derived concepts. These letters are reproduced elsewhere with commentary (S. Rosenzweig, 1985). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
