Alan Stone's address on the status of psychoanalysis as a science

(mirror)

On the 9th of December 1996, Alan Stone gave a keynote address to the American Academy of Psychoanalysis in which he argues that psychoanalysis is not a science as it doesn't appear to have grown in the manner of "standing on shoulders" that Stone feels is necessary for something to be a science.

I'm mounting a mirror here as I found the original, beautifully mounted at the Harvard site, was sometimes difficult to get, and as I believe that Stone raises many important issues (though I fairly fundamentally disagree with him!).

I'm keen to mount any responses to Stone who's authors are willing for this to happen. I have taken it that all who have their responses already mounted at the Harvard site have, in effect, given tacit permission for broadcast of their work (as I don't have any way of contacting them). If any disagree I will remove their work.

WWW version from the Harvard magazine site in four files
same in one file for anyone who wants to print it out to paper
the text of the original address (the magazine version is a little edited)
Responses. To date 7.iii.97, these have come to me through three routes:
1. letters submitted on line to the Harvard magazine in response to the article,
2. letters in response that appeared on the magazine WWW site, presumably sent by snail mail and presented in a later edition of the magazine and
3. others I have found from other sources on the Internet/WWW
Here's an alphabetical list of with the source of the material
- anonymous (ex-analysand) published response letter in WWW Harvard Magazine
- William H. Berman published response letter in WWW Harvard Magazine
- Monroe Burk published response letter in WWW Harvard Magazine
- H.W. Edwards published response letter in WWW Harvard Magazine
- Jerold R. Gold on-line letter to the Harvard Magazine
- Norman N. Holland published response letter in WWW Harvard Magazine
- Nathaniel S. Lehrman published response letter in WWW Harvard Magazine
- Howard S. MacAyeal on-line letter to the Harvard Magazine
- Robert L. Pyles published response letter in WWW Harvard Magazine
- Arlene Kramer Richards letter to the Email list of the American Psychoanalytic Society
- Helen Rosen on-line letter to the Harvard Magazine
- Joseph Schacter published response letter in WWW Harvard Magazine
- Graham Spruiell on-line letter to the Harvard Magazine
- Kevin Jon Williams published response letter in WWW Harvard Magazine
- Herbert M. Wyman published response letter in WWW Harvard Magazine
There is a response by Stone to the letters printed in the Harvard magazine.
Many thanks to Alan Stone for allowing me to mirror his address and to Matt Skelly for his marvellous work on the original site.
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