But Facts Exist: An Enquiry into Psychoanalytic Theorizing (Thomas Freeman, Routledge, 1998)

This book provides an account of the chequered course of international psychoanalysis over the last 100 years, with a lucid critical treatment of the major theoretical developments, illustrated by clinical examples drawn from the author's own vast experience. (amazon) (accessible via Proquest Ebooks Central)

Readers  of  this  book  will  find  themselves  highly  stimulated by  the  way  in  which  Freeman  consistently  addresses  indisputable "clinical  facts"—phenomena  such  as  dreams,  parapraxes, and psychotic  phenomena  that  occur  both  independently  and  within the  analytic  relationship  and  that  are  verifiable  through  repeated observations  independent  of  any  one  observer. 

Freeman  uses extensive  and  vivid  clinical  material  as  his  starting  point . He carefully  distinguishes  between  clinical  facts  and  psychoanalytic facts, which  emerge  only  in  the  patient-analyst  relationship  and are therefore  not  verifiable  in  the  same  way  as  clinical  facts .  In a most  objective  manner,  Freeman  then  describes  and  debates  in  succeeding chapters  major  psychoanalytic  theories  that  have  been espoused  to account  for  both  clinical  and  psychoanalytic  facts . (Foreword, pp. ix-x)