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The Evaluation of Psychotherapy: A Reply to Greenwood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Edward Erwin
Edward Erwin*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Miami
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Abstract

John Greenwood (this issue) claims that neglect of an important methodological distinction has contributed directly to the “epistemic impoverishment” of empirical studies of all forms of professional psychotherapy. I challenge this claim, as well as other important claims he makes about the efficacy of psychoanalysis and other forms of psychotherapy.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 63 , Issue 4 , December 1996 , pp. 642 - 651
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1996

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Send reprint requests to the author, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, P.O. Box 248054, Coral Gables, FL 33124–4670.

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I would like to thank Adolf Grünbaum for his helpful comments.

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