The last sentence is a provocation to someone who wrote a 400+ page doctoral dissertion arguing that there are no differences in kind between the so called natural and the so called social sciences, only differences in degree that are no greater than the differences between the so called natural sciences themselves. Biology is not that similar to physics either! However, if you want to discuss this this, tell me what you have in mind. As for psychoanalysis, Freud is quite clear that it's not just therapy but a body of theoretical knowledge.
I have my own experience with psychosis and psychoanalysis and I do not think psychoanalysis is a science. It is a tool to deal with certain psychical problems, just like medicine is not a science in the sense that physics is a science. The so called social sciences, marxism included, are also not sciences in the sense that physics is a science.
Renato Pompeu
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