Toward an Integration of Psychoanalysis and the Social Sciences
It has been argued that psychoanalysis is a psychological system with a philosophical outlook. Its philosophy has been designated the analytic ideal. The behavioral sciences, products in the main of the past hundred years, have developed as bodies of empirical information grounded on dubious theoretical bases. Hence they have in general been opposed to psychoanalysis. Nor can this opposition be expected to diminish or disappear unless the practitioners succeed in disentangling their personal biases from their ideology. All the social sciences should be reorganized with psychoanalytic psychology as the core. From the other side, psychoanalysis can be strongly influenced and improved by incorporation of data from the social sciences. In many areas that is going on rapidly. The result will be one unified science of man, with psychoanalysis at or near the center, which will embrace all the knowledge currently available, and build a sound base for future growth and research.