Scientific Status of Psychodynamic Theory

The Scientific Status of the Labour Theory of Value

Scientific theories tell us something about the material world. They are means by which we can both explain and predict aspects of reality. They are not the only form of explanation: myth, story telling and religion also explain things, but with more limited predictive power. A theory which makes no predictions is never scientific, whilst one whose predictions have now been invalidated has forf...

On scientific status and practical significance Of One psychOlOgycal theOry

Since the late 1950s, a significant number of authors tried to use Galperin’s approach (which is well-known as the “Theory of planned stage-by-stage formation of mental actions”, or the PSFMA Theory) to improve schooling processes and results. Looking back at the more than fifty-year history of Galperin’s approach, one may note that the 1960s and the early 1970s were the periods of the great op...

The place of psychodynamic theory in developmental psychopathology.

Psychoanalysis ushered in this century. Will its influence on developmental psychopathology end in the next? The paper explores some critical obstacles in the way of psychodynamic research, including the fragmentation of psychoanalytic theory. the relative independence of theory from its clinical and empirical base, the predominance of inductive scientific logic, the polymorphous use of terms, ...

The Scientific Status of Homeopathy

editorial: present status of scientific medical journals

i was glancing at the proceedings of the 3rd national meeting of iranian association of medical editors of december 2010, few points took my attention worth mentioning. of the 173 medical science journals of iran only 54 are registered in the scopus database.1   at this gathering all the talks had been focused on the improvement of the quality and impact factors (if) which is the score that the...