title: In the margins of scientific dialogue: Evart Van Dieren contra psychoanalysis.
abstract: Evart Van Dieren (1861-1940), a Dutch general practitioner who had a passionate aversion against psychoanalysis, wrote two particularly polemical books contra Freud but nevertheless did not succeed in generating much response. In this paper, some of his objections against psychoanalysis are briefly examined and compared with some present day arguments against Freud by Grünbaum and Crews, with the purpose of finding an answer to the question: What does it take to be a successful or unsuccessful critic?
authors.affiliation: University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jaap
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bos
mesh_terms: D005619:Freudian Theory; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009426:Netherlands; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*