Frank Cioffi

British philosopher who mounted one of the earliest and most sustained philosophical critiques of Freudian psychoanalysis as an irrefutable pseudo-science.

Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience: Freudian psychoanalysis systematically immunizes itself against disconfirmation; it is not science but a hermeneutic practice masquerading as science. Applied Wittgensteinian methods to diagnose the conceptual confusions in Freudian theory.