Reassessing Freud's case histories : the social construction of psychoanalysis / Frank J. Sulloway.
Abstract:
'[Freud's] controversial clinical methods only served to magnify the conceptual problems inherent in his dubious theoretical assumptions. In this essay I shall argue that the peculiar social organization that emerged within psychoanalysis during its first three decades was closely tied to Freud's concerted but unsuccessful efforts to circumvent these methodological shortcomings.'
Isis Vol. 82 (1991), p. 245-275