Abstract

For two decades Adolf Grünbaum’s publications have shaken the foundations of psychoanalysis and stimulated the thinking of philosophers of science, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and psychologists. It all started with Grünbaum’s critique of Popper’s famous critique of psychoanalysis as not falsifiable. Grünbaum succeeded in giving counter-examples to Popper’s claims. Within two years after his own systematic and detailed analysis of psychoanalysis, and especially of Freud’s writings in The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique he responded to fortyone reviewers with his “Is Freud’s theory well-founded?”