Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire is a 1985 book by psychiatrist Hans Eysenck, a proponent of the view that psychoanalysis is unscientific and that its theories are based on no legitimate base of observation or experiment and have the status only of speculation. Eysenck argues that the veracity of psychoanalysis is testable through traditional empirical means, and that in all areas where such tests have been carried out it has failed. Eysenck calls Sigmund Freud, "a genius, not of science, but of propaganda, not of rigorous proof, but of persuasion, not of the design of experiments, but of literary art."^[1] Richard Webster writes that Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire "contains many criticisms of Freud which are both cogent and interesting." However, Webster criticizes it for uncritically accepting E. M. Thornton's argument that Freud's patient Anna O. suffered from tuberculous meningitis, remarking that Eysenck's "scepticism, so active when Freud's theories are in question, is sometimes suspended when it comes to assessing the arguments of Freud's critics."^[2]