Researching the Unconscious: Principles of Psychoanalytic Method

ISBN-13: 9781782204374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 328 str.

Michael Rustin

Opis

Researching the Unconscious provides an exposition of key issues in the philosophy and methods of the social sciences which are relevant to psychoanalysis as both a clinical practice and a human science.

Spis treści

Series editors' preface;  Acknowledgements;  Preface;  Chapter 1: Introduction;  Chapter 2: Psychoanalysis as a scientific paradigm;  Chapter 3: The consulting room as the psychoanalytic laboratory;  Chapter 4: Philosophical realism and its relevance;  Chapter 5: Meanings and causes in psychoanalytical explanation;  Chapter 6: On classification;  Chapter 7: Case-study methods in psychoanalysis;  Chapter 8: Parts and wholes: different kinds of explanation;  Chapter 9: Complexity theory and psychoanalysis;  Chapter 10: Clinical facts;  Chapter 11: Grounded theory in psychoanalysis and child psychotherapy;  Chapter 12: Grounded theory in child psychotherapy: an example;  Chapter 13: Outcome studies;  Chapter 14: Observational research methods;  Chapter 15: Socio-psychoanalytic research;  Chapter 16: Psychoanalytic cultural methods;  References

O autorze

Michael Rustin is a Professor of Sociology at the University of East London, UK. He has been a significant contributor to psychoanalytic debates over many years and is the author and editor of many books, including The Good Society and the Inner World (1991), Reason and Unreason (2001), and, with Margaret Rustin, Mirror to Nature (2002) and Reading Klein (2017). He has played a major role in the development of postgraduate and doctoral research at the Tavistock Clinic. He is an Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society.