A Portfolio of Academic, Therapeutic Practice and Research Work Including Investigations of the Experiences of Subfertile Men and of People With Psoriasis' Experience of Therapy.

The present work briefly examines existing literature to determine whether Psychoanalysis can be tested using the traditional quantitative methods common in the so called hard sciences. It then presents the case for subjecting it to such tests and examines both direct and circumstantial evidence. It concludes that results from empirical tests, which Psychoanalysis can and should be subjected to, are still equivocal